Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’
Michael Jordan
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope
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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Epictetus
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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
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We need a new model: If you can’t explain it, you can’t sell it.
Elizabeth Warren
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai Lama
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Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
Bill Gates
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If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Stephen Covey
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The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they’re more desperate than anyone else, but because they’re more touched by it. That’s not their weakness. It’s their strength!
Marianne Williamson
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A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Jane Austen
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