Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Hedy Lamarr
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
Roger Daltrey
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell
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‘The Wizard of Oz’ is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.
RuPaul
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