Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell
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I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump’s business plan is a disaster in the making.
Michael Bloomberg
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
Stephen Hawking
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I became the not on a volunteer basis.
Dalai Lama
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It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
Bill Gates
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The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.
Robert Kennedy
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
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