Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac
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Capitalism works.
Michael Bloomberg
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I was a super once – an extra – in ‘Die Fledermaus,’ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
Henry Rollins
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma Bombeck
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In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Thomas Sowell
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We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
Noam Chomsky
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There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it’s easy to guess where I am in that.
Arundhati Roy
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