Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
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Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.
Marie Curie
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes
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I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress’s back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.
Harriet Tubman
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.
Abraham Lincoln
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
Calvin Coolidge
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There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel Osteen
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