Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there’s a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
Jesse Jackson
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Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Blaise Pascal
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
Stephen Covey
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. Rowling
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That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.
Pete Buttigieg
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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