Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Yasser Arafat
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What you are will show in what you do.
Thomas A. Edison
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I’m quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I’ve had my fill of politics.
Condoleezza Rice
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As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
Marianne Williamson
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
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Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.
John Lewis
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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