Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
Yannick Noah
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Everybody in this league waits on an opportunity when you don’t play the starter minutes, when you don’t play the type of minutes you want. And with each given opportunity, you got to be ready to come out and perform.
Iman Shumpert
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
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The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
Maria Montessori
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When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
Clint Eastwood
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If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
Lou Holtz
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