Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Bill Gates
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Wilma Rudolph
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I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
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A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Got any book recommendations?