Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato
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My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
Dolly Parton
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Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Mitch Hedberg
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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.
Donald Trump
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I love ‘Anne of Green Gables.’ I have for years. That’s one of my favourite things. She’s such a can-do kind of girl; that’s why I’m crazy about her.
Aretha Franklin
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I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.
Steve Jobs
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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