Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James Baldwin
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I think you have to be what you are. Don’t try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.
John Wooden
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Emily Dickinson
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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
Carter G. Woodson
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
Susan B. Anthony
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
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I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‘Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.’
Kevin Hart
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
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