Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn
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I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal – because I’m not hiding anything from them.
Ellen DeGeneres
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But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.
Freddie Mercury
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
Muhammad Ali
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Tony Robbins
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Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind.
Sam Houston
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David
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Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand
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