Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
Noam Chomsky
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Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.
Noam Chomsky
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin
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I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don’t always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.
Henry Rollins
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The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington
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I don’t like video games.
Iman Shumpert
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
Zachary Taylor
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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