Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
Elvis Presley
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I don’t understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don’t bother no one.
Mike Tyson
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.
Will Smith
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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Alexander Pope
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