Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere
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K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
Bill Gates
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus
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The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
Maria Montessori
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen
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I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It’s an asset – something rather liberating.
Yasmine Hamdan
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins
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I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
Ellen DeGeneres
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