Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.
Aeschylus
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake
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There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
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There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger – not because they don’t acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.
Simon Sinek
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
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