Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’
Maya Angelou
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A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
Stephen Hawking
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Albert Camus
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The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
Henry Rollins
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
St. Jerome
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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil
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My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.
Will Smith
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Henry Rollins
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Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
Henry Rollins
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