Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.
Mike Pence
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Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.
Colin Powell
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
Abraham Lincoln
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An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
Henry Rollins
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We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill
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