Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
Martha Graham
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I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau
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If I’m nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it’s playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.
Maria Sharapova
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
Malala Yousafzai
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character.
Yasmine Hamdan
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire
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