Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Marcus Aurelius
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Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
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I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.
Steve Harvey
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I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
Mike Tyson
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Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it – really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn’t have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?
Condoleezza Rice
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If you’re poor, you don’t often live near a good school. If it’s a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.
James Baldwin
Got any book recommendations?