Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
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That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate – that was the one cardinal sin in our community.
Condoleezza Rice
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For me, my ‘X’ replaced the white slave master name of ‘Little’ which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
Malcolm X
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I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
Ray Bradbury
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
Hippocrates
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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
Colin Powell
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
H. L. Mencken
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One Direction is the main thing I’m doing and I’m 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
Zayn Malik
Got any book recommendations?