Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
Jim Valvano
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The reward of suffering is experience.
Harry S Truman
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
Langston Hughes
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.
H. L. Mencken
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Philanthropy should be voluntary.
Bill Gates
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This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
Carter G. Woodson
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There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Mark Twain
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