Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
Terry Pratchett
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter Drucker
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney
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One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for gridlock. It was designed to stop massive new laws being passed and voted on daily. It was designed to stop the growth of government.
Rush Limbaugh
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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
Lou Holtz
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Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.
Robert Kennedy
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
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It is so much more difficult to live with one’s body than with one’s soul. One’s body is so much more exacting: what it won’t have it won’t have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
D. H. Lawrence
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