Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
Henry Rollins
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Thomas Hobbes
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
Mae Jemison
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
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It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.
Phil McGraw
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I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
Marilyn Monroe
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
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