Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.
Bernie Sanders
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Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.
Bill Gates
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon
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‘Harry Potter’ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
J. K. Rowling
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Selma helped make it possible for hundreds and thousands of people in the South to become registered voters and encouraged people all across America to become participants in a democratic process.
John Lewis
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
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Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.
Mitch Hedberg
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In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.
Noam Chomsky
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You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Harry S Truman
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