Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one’s self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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When I did ‘Kapoor & Sons,’ I had a prosthetic look. It would take me six-and-a-half hours daily for 20, 25 days.
Rishi Kapoor
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My father used to call me the laughing hyena.
Phyllis Diller
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Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.
Phil McGraw
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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo
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Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Virgil
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell
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