Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.
Terry Pratchett
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Jesus said, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.’ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‘kingdom,’ he would have said, ‘dimension.’ And ‘heaven’ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.
Noam Chomsky
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Walt Disney
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I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.
Billy Graham
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Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant
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One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
Hedy Lamarr
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton
Got any book recommendations?