Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
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I went with a friend to see Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas, in the last year that he was performing. He wasn’t necessarily on top form, but the way he could connect with an audience and the way he communicated through the lyrics was something I hadn’t ever really seen before.
Ron Howard
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran
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We have time, there’s no big rush.
Jimi Hendrix
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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.
Alexander Pope
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
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I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.
Misty Copeland
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I have been bowling at the death sometimes. You need to focus. You know if you miss your target, you will go for a boundary, but it’s also good because it makes you a really good bowler. You practise hard, and you try to bowl in one area most of the time.
Imran Tahir
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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa
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