Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.
Robert Kennedy
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Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
Deepak Chopra
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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Thomas Jefferson
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Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
Alexander the Great
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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I am proud to be a woman in the Senate.
Amy Klobuchar
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To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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