Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
Fidel Castro
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
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Precaution is better than cure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
Phil McGraw
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We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Truth is a pathless land.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about – not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
Rahm Emanuel
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So many girls come up and say to me, ‘I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.’ That’s the coolest compliment to me.
Taylor Swift
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In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.
Zachary Taylor
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Plato
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