Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.
Pete Buttigieg
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot
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Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne Dyer
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We live on this speck called Earth – think about what you might do, today or tomorrow – and make the most of it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
Paulo Coelho
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On the subject of literary genres, I’ve always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I’d love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
J. K. Rowling
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I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
Terry Pratchett
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Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.
Steve Harvey
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson
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It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
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