Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you’re outscored.
John Wooden
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Sun Tzu
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Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
Maria Montessori
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
James Baldwin
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There’s a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there’s so much angst across the country.
Rush Limbaugh
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Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
Stephen Covey
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Over the years, I’ve interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I’ve ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
Oprah Winfrey
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I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Ronald Reagan
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