Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de Balzac
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Common Core is a big win for education.
Bill Gates
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Art Tatum was a genius.
Aretha Franklin
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When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
Wayne Dyer
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
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My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.
Michelle Obama
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I wanted to pursue my own thing – I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.
Yasmine Hamdan
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The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln
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The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
John D. Rockefeller
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People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, ‘We can do better.’
Mike Pence
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