Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
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I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.
Muhammad Ali
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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
Carter G. Woodson
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Baldwin
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Hippocrates
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Epictetus
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie
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Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Virgil
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It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus
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