Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
Brene Brown
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When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an ‘order from Al Capone,’ Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: ‘I think that is the world’s greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.’
Louis Armstrong
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
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While there are plenty of reasons that we lost in 2016, there’s at least one that we can definitely fix for next time: We can make sure that no one is left behind in where we go, in who we talk to, in what we say, and in what we do.
Amy Klobuchar
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire
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The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot
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