Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
Will Smith
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have… be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‘oral method’ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‘sign language’ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.
Alexander Graham Bell
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I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
Elvis Presley
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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Benjamin Disraeli
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All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy Graham
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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