Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
Billy Graham
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I’m not as open as I used to be. I’m a little bit more filtered, and it kind of sucks, but it’s the price you pay to get paid.
Cardi B
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Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it’s not simply, ‘Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?’ That’s an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that’s presented in front of you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce
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There’s always going to be a need for activism; there’s always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.
Henry Rollins
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Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment – money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
Bernie Sanders
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It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
Keanu Reeves
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I’ve had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I’d rather not talk about it, because it’s over. But depression is real.
Henri Nouwen
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx
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