Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim ‘manufacturing’ tax deductions.
Bernie Sanders
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams
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We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine
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Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
Noam Chomsky
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I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it’s meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.
Michael Jordan
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Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
Henry Rollins
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I’ve always idolized people who can write songs.
RuPaul
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Self-reliance – that’s a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don’t do anything with anybody. They don’t want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one’s life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.
Rush Limbaugh
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