Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If we are about what is good today, then we that are good need to come together to fight what’s bad out there.
Ruby Bridges
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I’m not interested in being liked.
Alexander McQueen
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.
Abraham Lincoln
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
Taylor Swift
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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Socrates
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
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