Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‘That’s an American’ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.
Maya Angelou
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Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‘the book lady.’ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‘book lady’ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.
Dolly Parton
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Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.
Kevin Hart
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Thomas Sowell
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
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It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
Marilyn Monroe
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