Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill
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There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
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It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
Condoleezza Rice
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
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I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
Elon Musk
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I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.
Billy Graham
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Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you’d better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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