Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
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Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
Robert Frost
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There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‘Fine,’ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‘What a horror!’
Marilyn Monroe
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Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!
Marianne Williamson
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
Aristotle
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I’ve learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!
Leo Buscaglia
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Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
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