Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz
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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron
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Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Khalil Gibran
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I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
Elizabeth Taylor
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
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There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
Maria Montessori
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Mark Twain
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‘Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.’ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.
Joe Biden
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