Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams
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Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people’s own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It’s an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn’t prosperity.
Rush Limbaugh
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya
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I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for ‘Watchmen.’ We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don’t miss the commentary about them.
Zack Snyder
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson
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Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
Bob Dylan
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I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
Hedy Lamarr
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Some parents do not send their children to school because they don’t know its importance at all.
Malala Yousafzai
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
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I need to focus on other things before I carry on in Bollywood. I can’t be doing what I’ve done in ‘Lungi Dance’ and now the song ‘Party With Bhootnath’ with Bachchan over and over again. I’ve to reinvent myself for Bollywood.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
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