Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve been very fortunate.
Dolly Parton
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Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
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I had not expected ‘A Brief History of Time’ to be a best seller.
Stephen Hawking
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Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
Bernie Sanders
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
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I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: ‘What’s it like being a black dancer?’ So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.
Misty Copeland
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But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Carol Burnett
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