Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot
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If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
Dale Carnegie
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I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.
Kevin Gates
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Listening is active. At its most basic level, it’s about focus, paying attention.
Simon Sinek
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I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.
Elon Musk
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It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
Brene Brown
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
Fidel Castro
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A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.
Noam Chomsky
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