Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Obama’s not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn’t down for the apartheid struggle, but he’s clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.
Rush Limbaugh
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In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve Jobs
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It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle
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Vanity is but the surface.
Blaise Pascal
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When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
George Harrison
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
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Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.
Pope Francis
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The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.
Gordon Ramsay
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Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Marcus Aurelius
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