Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.
Nelson Mandela
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When America does what’s right, it’s such a light on this planet.
Marianne Williamson
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
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Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Charles Spurgeon
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Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
David Bowie
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Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
Alan Watts
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.
Condoleezza Rice
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I mean, you know, we don’t live in a perfect world.
Michael Bloomberg
Got any book recommendations?