Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
Eckhart Tolle
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.
Billy Graham
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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody Allen
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Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more.
Sam Houston
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There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
Langston Hughes
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
Noam Chomsky
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