Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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All my songs depict a slice of life and how youngsters perceive it. My song ‘Blue Eyes’ is exactly the kind of conversation a 21 or 22-year-old guy will have with the girl he likes.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore
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You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn’t have the protection that a newspaper has.
Carol Burnett
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
Mae Jemison
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
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Well, Babyface brings his savoir faire to every project. He’s a very easy producer to work with, very detailed in listening to everything.
Aretha Franklin
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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his ‘being different’ gets in the way.
Henri Nouwen
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Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
Albert Camus
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill Gates
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