Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
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Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That’s fine. But what do you do?
Bernie Sanders
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I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
Wayne Dyer
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As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to make sacrifices and step up to the plate. I’m very proud that my parents happened to be people who did. They were not privileged to have a formal education.
Ruby Bridges
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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want
Rhonda Byrne
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I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter – I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.
Misty Copeland
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For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.
Tony Robbins
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Langston Hughes
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