Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Chanakya
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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau
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I like restraint, if it doesn’t go too far.
Mae West
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Old systems do not fold willingly, particularly when they control gargantuan amounts of wealth and power. But like empires of old – from the Romans to the Hapsburgs to the colonial British – even the largest do fall.
Marianne Williamson
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Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way.
Jeff Bezos
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The devil’s name is dullness.
Robert E. Lee
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
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Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
Marianne Williamson
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain
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