Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.
Michelle Obama
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln
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I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
Clint Eastwood
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine
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There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
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Every artist wants something different out the game.
Nipsey Hussle
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When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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