Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
Noam Chomsky
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I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.
Kobe Bryant
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Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.
Joyce Meyer
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I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope
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The fact we don’t have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
Mae Jemison
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
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