Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai Lama
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Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.
Bob Marley
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Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.
Misty Copeland
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You can’t hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
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Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It helps to know from a very early age what you want to do. From the time I was five years old, I wanted to be a writer, even though I couldn’t even read. It was mainly because I thought of my father as a writer.
Tom Wolfe
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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
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My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.
LeBron James
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