Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I’ve cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody’s gone that far, because it makes life rich.
RuPaul
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What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
Maya Angelou
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
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It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
Maya Angelou
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A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.
Karl Marx
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I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan
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Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
William Shakespeare
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When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we’ve got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.
Bernie Sanders
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