Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Elon Musk
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?
Muhammad Ali
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You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.
Joe Biden
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Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
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If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia Woolf
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There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
William Shakespeare
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Jesus Christ
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Harry S Truman
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