Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.
Brene Brown
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Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T. S. Eliot
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When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‘Well, you know: It’s secret.’
Noam Chomsky
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If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that’s when you become the enemy.
Rush Limbaugh
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.
Duke Ellington
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You can’t state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
Zadie Smith
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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