Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don’t always use it well.
Zadie Smith
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James Madison
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The Bible is not only laws, it’s also stories. It begins, ‘In the beginning God created Heaven.’ If I had written these words, I wouldn’t have written anything else; it’s just enough.
Elie Wiesel
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When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
Dolly Parton
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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
Jeff Bezos
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen
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