Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’m like a big 10-year-old when I’m on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.
Tyler-The Creator
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You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Marcus Garvey
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Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.
Pope Francis
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Susan B. Anthony
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We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle Obama
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
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