Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
Terry Pratchett
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
Warren Buffett
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All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
Muhammad Ali
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
John C. Maxwell
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‘Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope
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I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.
Tom Brady
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Abraham Lincoln
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