Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
Denis Waitley
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We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.
Carl Sagan
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You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
Tom Wolfe
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Brian Tracy
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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People always tell you, ‘Be humble. Be humble.’ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!
Kanye West
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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas Paine
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
James Baldwin
Got any book recommendations?