Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it’s cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that’s the realm in which we should be playing.
Joe Biden
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It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‘I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.’
Taylor Swift
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton
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There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.
Nikola Tesla
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Trust one who has tried.
Virgil
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I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
Kanye West
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein
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