Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
Michelle Obama
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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James Madison
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My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
Denzel Washington
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But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus
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There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
Douglas Adams
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Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
Henry Rollins
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I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood
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