Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.
John Lewis
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.
Eminem
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Can you imagine the first time they figured out how to mechanically raise somebody up through the stage and make them appear, or drop them down on a rope or a wire? It blew everybody’s minds, I’m sure.
Ron Howard
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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
Ray Bradbury
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Today’s average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
Marianne Williamson
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As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.
Demetri Martin
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.
Eckhart Tolle
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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