Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher
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But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
Noam Chomsky
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I didn’t run for student council president. I don’t see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I’m not particularly fond of politics.
Condoleezza Rice
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Good generalship is the realisation that you’ve got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Pure love has no conditions or boundaries. Love does not restrain itself or hold back. Love gives all the time and doesn’t ask for anything in return. Love is a continuous flow without any limits. And all of this is inside you.
Rhonda Byrne
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