Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
Erma Bombeck
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Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
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I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
LeBron James
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I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that’s how I got my first backers. But fashion’s a scary industry to be in, especially if you’ve not grown up with it.
Alexander McQueen
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
Bill Gates
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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George Orwell
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I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.
LeBron James
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If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
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