Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
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Music is the emotional life of most people.
Leonard Cohen
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Dalai Lama
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is extremely important to me to write for children.
Stephen Hawking
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Moon-rock dust is the next big thing in fashion. But until then, it’s Hubba Hubba time!
Nishta Kochar
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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
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