Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
Bill Gates
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Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
Joel Osteen
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Zedong
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I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I
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I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.
Terry Pratchett
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The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Lord Byron
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