Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.
Billy Graham
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Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley
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I never really had an idol.
Maria Sharapova
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Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
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