Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel
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If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
Noam Chomsky
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I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Elon Musk
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We’ve always had each other’s backs in and out of competition. We support each other the most because we’re the only ones that know what it’s like to go through what we do, and so we can’t be more thankful for each other. We’re like sisters.
Simone Biles
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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
Rahm Emanuel
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The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.
Josephine Baker
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I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.
Elie Wiesel
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The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.
Elizabeth Warren
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