Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
John Muir
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
Noam Chomsky
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am a believer of all religions. I will happily visit a temple, mosque, church. I do not differentiate between religions.
Rishi Kapoor
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
Abraham Lincoln
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New York is definitely ready for the word of God.
Billy Graham
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
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I wouldn’t approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can’t rely on what’s in their heart. They don’t determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.
Sonia Sotomayor
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American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train’s on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.
Tom Wolfe
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