Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise Pascal
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Everything rises and falls on leadership.
John C. Maxwell
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Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
Denzel Washington
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Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.
Elizabeth Warren
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
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I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Douglas MacArthur
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Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.
Shah Rukh Khan
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