Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
Steve Jobs
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace
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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson
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Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws – to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
Shirley Chisholm
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It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
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There’s no one who has been living for centuries.
Malala Yousafzai
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
John Wayne
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