Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
Taylor Swift
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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
John Steinbeck
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Where id was, there ego shall be.
Sigmund Freud
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Kennedy
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‘That’s life.’
Maya Angelou
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