Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Buddha
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ‘it.’
T. S. Eliot
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Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Robert Baden-Powell
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When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m better.
Mae West
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I’ve always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
Brad Pitt
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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.
Joyce Meyer
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I want to have fun, but I don’t quite know how.
Malala Yousafzai
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We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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