Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We all get where we’re going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
Carol Burnett
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I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we’re much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it’s something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences.
Misty Copeland
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When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.
Noam Chomsky
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I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Joyce Meyer
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
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