Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Fidel Castro
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton
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Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey changey stuff,’ she was right: there was nothing there.
Noam Chomsky
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
Oprah Winfrey
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Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.
Brene Brown
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