Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I’ve met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
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You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci
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When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I’d read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
John Wayne
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You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what’s that? Who needs any of that?
Rush Limbaugh
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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
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The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.
Nelson Mandela
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
Got any book recommendations?