Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The center of gravity of the American people is way to the left of the center of gravity of Congress and, in many ways, to the left of the national Democratic Party.
Pete Buttigieg
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Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
Marianne Williamson
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I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.
Joyce Meyer
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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Alan Watts
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Voltaire
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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.
Maya Angelou
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I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
Denzel Washington
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Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.
William Shakespeare
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
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I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.
Stephen Hawking
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