Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.
Michelle Obama
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government – quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point – is that ours is to be a government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’
Marianne Williamson
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don’t like to use the word efficiency. It’s creativity. It’s a belief that every person counts.
Jack Welch
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake
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People with banking experience haven’t all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.
Elizabeth Warren
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
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There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying ‘I hope this guy fails’ right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.
Rush Limbaugh
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
Laurence J. Peter
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You can’t get your head around something if you’re yelling.
Henry Rollins
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