Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
Thomas Sowell
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There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It’s all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.
Joe Biden
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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
Buddha
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We’ve gone overboard on every Queen album. But that’s Queen.
Freddie Mercury
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I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.
Donald Trump
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Mark Twain
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.
Rush Limbaugh
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.
Tyson Fury
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