Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy
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I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people – just talking bad.
Ric Flair
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett
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Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
Bill Gates
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Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway
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We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‘Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?’ I said: ‘Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.’
Lou Holtz
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Mind moves matter.
Virgil
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