Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.
Phil McGraw
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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
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The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.
Jordan Peterson
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Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.
Nelson Mandela
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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Tony Robbins
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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
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Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one’s wishes.
Nikita Khrushchev
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
D. H. Lawrence
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I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
Ellen DeGeneres
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