Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Alexander Graham Bell
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The days you work are the best days.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.
Dolly Parton
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How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation that people of color wanted to register to vote.
John Lewis
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
Jackie Robinson
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I would have absolutely messed up ‘The Matrix’.
Will Smith
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There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
Marilyn Monroe
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