Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
Jesse Jackson
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What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
Bob Iger
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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare
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I’m sure they’re saddened by me, and I get frustrated with them. But I love them, and at the end of the day if they need me or if they need anything, I’m there for them. Family.
Brad Pitt
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin
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God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
Henri Nouwen
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin Disraeli
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