Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. Nixon
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In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell
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How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning
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How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
John C. Maxwell
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The daughters of God don’t brake for jerks.
Marianne Williamson
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I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Marilyn Monroe
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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
Euripides
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I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota – it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.
Amy Klobuchar
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I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.
Steven Wright
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore
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