Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
Hunter S. Thompson
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
Jim Valvano
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It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
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The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
Stephen Hawking
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Henry David Thoreau
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I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.
Alice Walker
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We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.
Charles Spurgeon
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I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Lou Holtz
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I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. Kennedy
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe
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