Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.
Noam Chomsky
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Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.
Yance Ford
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
Lou Holtz
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
Abraham Lincoln
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
Usain Bolt
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I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like ‘Here Comes The Sun,’ and some of them aren’t, you know.
George Harrison
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