Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you’re throwing it or running it in, it’s not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That’s the problem with turnovers.
Tom Brady
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To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow – with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present – then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that’s where we’re headed.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith
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It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
Rahm Emanuel
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
John Wayne
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I’ve been known to preach.
Kevin Hart
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You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Les Brown
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My son was named after my father, whose name was Ranbir Raj Kapoor.
Rishi Kapoor
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When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.
Dolly Parton
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