Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
William Arthur Ward
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Terry Pratchett
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’
Dalai Lama
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Wheresoever you turn, there is the face of Allah (God).
Ibn Arabi
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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.
Wayne Dyer
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Brian Tracy
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I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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