Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad Ali
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The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Marianne Williamson
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll
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I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail’ had been a success and launched me as a star.
John Wayne
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When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin Franklin
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I have played all generations in reel and real life – grandson, son, father, and grandfather – and each relationship has taught me something.
Rishi Kapoor
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
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Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson
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