Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
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A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it.
Rhonda Byrne
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
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You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke
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I think governments can’t do much.
Dalai Lama
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
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