Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Noam Chomsky
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine
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Sometimes you lose sight of what’s going on around you.
Usain Bolt
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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
Elie Wiesel
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
Lou Holtz
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Well, I think it’s pretty much established that I just didn’t have any interest in coaching in the pros.
Bobby Knight
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You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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We just cannot worry about ourselves.
Pope Francis
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I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
Joel Osteen
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