Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
Confucius
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Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
Robert Kennedy
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The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
Maria Montessori
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
Noam Chomsky
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My drive is other people’s success.
Kevin Hart
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