Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
Muhammad Ali
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron
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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Leonard Cohen
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I’ve got the brain of a four year old. I’ll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
Groucho Marx
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
Saint Augustine
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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