Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.
Joyce Meyer
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The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.
Rush Limbaugh
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I feel like with ‘On the Town,’ it was the perfect production and the perfect opportunity.
Misty Copeland
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Our teachers made such a difference – all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.
Katherine Johnson
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In ‘Gran Torino,’ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.
Clint Eastwood
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison
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