Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron
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I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.
Jimmy Wales
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It’s the most exciting thing to watch God work when I’ve asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It’s like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
James Madison
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost
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Donald Trump understands the anxiety and aspirations of the American people like no leader since Reagan.
Mike Pence
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We’ve shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
Michael Bloomberg
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One of the reasons we set up this country, one of the things we celebrate in freedom and democracy of the United States is you can criticize your president. You can criticize the ways in which the country falls short of its values.
Pete Buttigieg
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