Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If my kid couldn’t draw I’d make sure that my kitchen magnets didn’t work.
Mitch Hedberg
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.
Susan B. Anthony
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Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.
Elizabeth Warren
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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Horace
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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We’ll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.
Mike Pence
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.
Noam Chomsky
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It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.
Steven Wright
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