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• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

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• La diversidad de la humanidad es un postulado básico de nuestro conocimiento de los seres humanos. Pero si la humanidad es diversa e individualizada, ¿cómo puede alguien proponer la igualdad como ideal? Todos los años, los académicos celebran Conferencias sobre la Igualdad y reclaman una mayor igualdad, y nadie cuestiona el postulado básico. Pero, ¿qué justificación puede encontrar la igualdad en la naturaleza del hombre? Si cada individuo es único, ¿cómo se le puede hacer "igual" a los demás si no es destruyendo la mayor parte de lo que hay de humano en él y reduciendo la sociedad humana a la uniformidad descerebrada del hormiguero?

  Murray Rothbard

  Unique, Men, Years

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1309, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• El regocijo descerebrado en casa es realmente espantoso; me hace temer que el primer golpe contra Tokio les haga marchitarse de inmediato... Sólo deseo que [los estadounidenses] hubieran tenido también, digamos, tres portaaviones en Hawai".

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Military, Home, Blow

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• Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

  Charles A. Reich

  Country, Technology, Men

  "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.

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• What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don’t really want to be at, doing some minuscule task, getting paid to be a mindless drone? Or am I out there living life, on my terms, the way I want to live it, doing the things that I want to do?

  Kai Greene

  Jobs, Live Life, Drones

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• What am I doing with my life am I living it or am I just going to some hum drum job that I don't really wanna be at doing some miniscule task being paid to be a mindless drone or am I living my life on my terms - the way I want to live doing thing that I want to do - make no mistake as hard as this is- this is what I want to do! Some people can make fun of it, they can crack jokes they can analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want but I'm living my life. I'm doing it! What are you?

  Kai Greene

  Jobs, Fun, Mistake

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• Ceñirse al estilo o estilos tradicionales de las artes marciales es el camino del artista marcial descerebrado y esclavizado. Pero inspirarse en el arte marcial tradicional y alcanzar nuevas cotas es el camino del genio.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Style, Genius

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Blessed, America, Unity

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• A veces, la inactividad es preferible al funcionamiento sin sentido.

  Jenny Holzer

  Thrive, Inactivity

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Walter Benjamin sabía que la ruptura de la tradición y la pérdida de autoridad que se produjeron durante su vida eran irreparables, y llegó a la conclusión de que tenía que descubrir nuevas formas de enfrentarse al pasado. En esto se convirtió en un maestro cuando descubrió que la transmisibilidad del pasado había sido sustituida por la citabilidad y que en lugar de su autoridad había surgido un extraño poder para instalarse, poco a poco, en el presente y privarlo de la "paz mental", la paz sin sentido de la complacencia.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Past, Mind

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• The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not balanced. Truth stands by itself. And the idea that something called fair and balanced is a substitute for truth and fact is mindless nonsense that has captured much of the national media.

  Lou Dobbs

  Media, Ideas, Political

  Studio Briefing, movieweb.com. October 17, 2005.

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• Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it.
  Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it:
  
  1, It's me and my Nation against the World
  2, Then me and my Clan against the Nation
  3, Then me and my Fam against the Clan
  4, Then me and my Brother, we no hesitation
  Go against the Fam until they cave in
  5, Now who's left in this deadly equation?
  
  That's right, it's me against my Brother
  Then we point a Kalashnikov
  And kill one another.

  K'naan

  Brother, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Powerful, War, Greatness

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• He declarado la guerra a los ricos que prosperan con nuestra pobreza, a los políticos que nos mienten con caras sonrientes, y a todos los robots descerebrados y sin corazón que los protegen a ellos y a sus propiedades.

  Assata Shakur

  War, Lying, Heartless

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.65, Zed Books

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• To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

  Mel Torme

  Music, Past, Jazz

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• The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Intelligent, Ghouls, Zombie

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• Me gusta la música disco sin sentido... dicen que las letras son estúpidas y repetitivas. ¿Qué hay de malo en ello? También lo es tumbarse al sol. No todo tiene que ser serio.

  Lou Reed

  Lying, Stupid, Sun

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• People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

  Vikas Swarup

  People, Want, Superstar

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• Esta tolerancia sin sentido, que sitúa los hechos científicos observables, sujetos a prueba, al mismo nivel que la fantasía sobrenatural indemostrable, ha desempeñado un papel fundamental en el resurgimiento tanto del antiintelectualismo como del antirracionalismo.

  Susan Jacoby

  Tolerance, Roles, Levels

  FaceBook post by Susan Jacoby from Aug 27, 2013

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• Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  New York, People, Leader

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• As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am completely free With my friends, the white clouds, idling forever There are roads, but they do not reach the world Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts On a bed of stone I sit, alone in the night While a round moon climbs up Cold Mountain

  Hanshan

  Moon, Night, Clouds

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• A través de los seres conscientes, el universo ha generado autoconciencia. Esto no puede ser un detalle trivial, ni un subproducto menor de fuerzas sin sentido y sin propósito. Estamos realmente destinados a estar aquí.

  Paul Davies

  Self, Details, Awareness

  Paul Davies (1993). “Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Hay mucha basura ahí fuera. La mayoría de las películas de ciencia ficción son abominaciones. No tienen sentido. Así que no puedes aprender de ese tipo de películas.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Kind, Film

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

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• Lo que hace peligrosa esta mentalidad es que cuando el equipo se mantiene unido por el arribismo y el partidismo sin sentido, se castiga a los miembros individuales por pensar por sí mismos.

  Tom Coburn

  Team, Thinking, Political

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Escribir es para hombres que pueden pensar y sentir, no para buscadores de sensaciones sin sentido de clubes nocturnos y bares. Pero corren malos tiempos. Estamos condenados a trabajar con advenedizos, payasos que sin duda se entrenaron en un circo y luego recurrieron al periodismo como el lugar apropiado para exhibir sus trucos.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Escribir, Hombres, Pensar

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