Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I think civility is important to getting things done.
Amy Klobuchar
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius
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The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it’s far more advanced.
Noam Chomsky
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If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Brad Pitt
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You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
Joel Osteen
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Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
John C. Maxwell
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.
Colin Powell
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