Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A republic – if you can keep it – is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
Mike Pence
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Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny Youngman
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For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.
John C. Maxwell
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I’m just happy I’m not a phony.
Mike Tyson
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
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Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.
Marianne Williamson
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
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The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.
Nina Simone
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I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
Noam Chomsky
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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill
Got any book recommendations?