Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The biggest and most deadly ‘tax’ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.
Thomas Sowell
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
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I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.
Douglas Adams
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I’ve never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
Indira Gandhi
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham
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I love Ashford & Simpson, and I love the Brothers Gibb. They are amazing.
RuPaul
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My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
Kurt Vonnegut
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond Tutu
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I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
Alexander McQueen
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The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone’s actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral – in a word, that there is a Universal Order.
Jean Piaget
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