Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
Lou Holtz
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
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Back home, if you get scored on, you’re the weak link. When I started getting good, they were like, ‘If you’re going to play on our team when we go play pick-up, and you start getting scored on, we’re not going to let you play anymore.’ I started learning how to help other people out with my defense.
Iman Shumpert
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you’re made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
Zadie Smith
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
Alice Paul
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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
Rumi
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward – very difficult; it changes at every instant, and here the weather varies several times in the same day.
Claude Monet
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