Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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The contentious issue of pay parity between male and female actors is easily resolvable if a number of big actresses decide to put their foot down. But we have to also consider the factors of time and labour. If a female actor has shot only for 40 days and the male actor for 200 days, she cannot expect to be paid the same amount.
Swara Bhaskar
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I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.
Shah Rukh Khan
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Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.
Michelle Obama
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
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I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
Charles Spurgeon
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran
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My childhood began, as everybody’s childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
Victor Hugo
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