Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana
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Dressed in a bright green saree, draped with the finesse of an air-hostess of shady airline service, stood Kavita. With lips covered in cheap red lipstick, she smiled like an underpaid air-hostess too. Her hair was decorated with flowers and she aggressively chewed on a betel leaf. One could see her teeth stained in the red catechu juice.
Nishta Kochar
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I didn’t get the high school opportunity, but it always worked out.
Simone Biles
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The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive – a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
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Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that’s his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he’s at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can’t do what I can do.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label.
Bernie Sanders
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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Lord Byron
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