Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs
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Qatar-based ‘Al-Jazeera,’ the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having ’emphasized civilian casualties’ during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.
Noam Chomsky
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell
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Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
Billy Graham
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I’ve always fought any form of censorship.
Yasmine Hamdan
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I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That’s how I became tough – I learned to pick up anything and fight back.
Roger Daltrey
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Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus
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I like to feel blonde all over.
Marilyn Monroe
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