Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.
Joel Osteen
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We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
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It is easy to dismiss the world as ‘irrelevant,’ or consumed by ‘paranoid anti-Americanism,’ but perhaps not wise.
Noam Chomsky
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I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I said that the tallest doll needed to be on the end, and my little friend said to me, ‘Oh, you’re just so bossy.’ I remember thinking that wasn’t a good thing. But I kept insisting the doll had to be on the end anyway.
Condoleezza Rice
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When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast – it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States.
Misty Copeland
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
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A cherub’s face, a reptile all the rest.
Alexander Pope
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One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.
Kobe Bryant
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