Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
Maya Angelou
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If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Jordan Peterson
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain
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I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
George Carlin
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If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.
Alice Walker
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau
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That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.(Christian D. Larson)
Rhonda Byrne
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
Erma Bombeck
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I would like to congratulate my partners in peace – Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister – on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yasser Arafat
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Plato
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