Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen
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President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney – or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed.
Robert Kennedy
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I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
Dalai Lama
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison
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I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.
LeBron James
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We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.
Elon Musk
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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson
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Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.
Noam Chomsky
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Be not simply good – be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
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