Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
Colin Powell
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My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
Alice Walker
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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman
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It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.
Tom Brady
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Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
Stephen Hawking
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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