Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
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When we can communicate from the inside out, we’re talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.
Simon Sinek
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When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
Benjamin Franklin
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard
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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
Nelson Mandela
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From the boys’ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
Robert Baden-Powell
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don’t want to be wrong. There’s nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.
Rush Limbaugh
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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.
Robert Baden-Powell
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