Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
Florence Nightingale
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Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.
Joyce Meyer
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man who does ill must suffer ill.
Aeschylus
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Many people – and I think I am one of them – are more productive when they’ve had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I’m far better able to write.
David Ogilvy
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
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The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that’s not their concern.
Noam Chomsky
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I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
Joel Osteen
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Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim Rohn
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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
Thomas Merton
Got any book recommendations?