Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They’ve never had war on their shore, and they’ve never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I’m not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I’m saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.
Henry Rollins
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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
Nelson Mandela
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The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
Dolly Parton
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