Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We’re far from perfect. It’s a human enterprise.
Bob Schieffer
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin
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Like what you do, and then you will do your best.
Katherine Johnson
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
Noam Chomsky
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What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.
Colin Powell
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