Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle
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Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
Charles Spurgeon
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
Bill Gates
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I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I’ve been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.
Bob Iger
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the ‘supreme law of the land’, in most instances they’re not even law.
Sonia Sotomayor
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis Presley
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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