Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates
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There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action – to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
Wayne Dyer
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My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
Charles Spurgeon
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Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
Joyce Meyer
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I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
Kanye West
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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S Truman
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer
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