Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve heard ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe’s pen hasn’t begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I’ve seen de real thing, and I don’t want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
Harriet Tubman
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It’s always such a delight working with Juhi.
Rishi Kapoor
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
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I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
Alice Walker
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.
Noam Chomsky
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Let’s make this clear: I do not hate anybody.
Tyson Fury
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw
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The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
Clint Eastwood
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