Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
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Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.
Keanu Reeves
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius
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I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
Jordan Peterson
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It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
Eminem
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy… We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I’ve rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
Rahm Emanuel
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No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Billy Graham
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I don’t feel like a hero.
Yance Ford
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