Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
Robert Frost
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
Harriet Tubman
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.
Erykah Badu
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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer
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Working on newspapers, you’re writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor – women can’t drive, things like that. That’s about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.
Tom Wolfe
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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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