Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Playing for South Africa is an absolute honour, and I don’t feel like I need to relax. Every game I take more than seriously.
Imran Tahir
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
Fidel Castro
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Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.
Noam Chomsky
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Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Ellen DeGeneres
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