Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I used to take my short stories to girls’ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
Ray Bradbury
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Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.
Bob Dylan
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‘Palaces for the People’ reads more like a succession of case studies than a comprehensive account of what social infrastructure is, so those looking for a theoretical framework may be disappointed.
Pete Buttigieg
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey
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I’m black, I don’t feel burdened by it and I don’t think it’s a huge responsibility. It’s part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah Winfrey
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I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.
Ron Howard
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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
Marianne Williamson
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I thought they’d get one of us, but Jack, after all he’s been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Robert Kennedy
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare
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Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be – you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.
John Lewis
Got any book recommendations?