Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God’s children.
Jesse Jackson
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
D. H. Lawrence
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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
Lou Holtz
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Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.
Deepak Chopra
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
George Herbert
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It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.
Noam Chomsky
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
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