Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word ‘socialist,’ get very, very nervous.
Bernie Sanders
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So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren’t always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself – at the optimism and hope – you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
Hedy Lamarr
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Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.
Arundhati Roy
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Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.
Amy Klobuchar
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates
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When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.
Audrey Hepburn
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
Condoleezza Rice
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