Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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The fact is that America’s weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
Arundhati Roy
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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
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Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.
Billy Graham
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I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.
Will Smith
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Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‘I,’ meaning ‘we.’
Maya Angelou
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Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‘Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?’
Terry Pratchett
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One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
Alice Walker
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
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