Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
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My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said ‘No, but I want a regular banana later, so… yeah.’
Mitch Hedberg
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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The basic premise of ‘A Course in Miracles’ is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
Marianne Williamson
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
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One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn’t elect those people. Isn’t it supposed to be different? Aren’t we supposed to like the people that we elected?
Bill Gates
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Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.
Jim Rohn
Got any book recommendations?