Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they’ve redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
Jesse Jackson
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Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It’s about statism. It’s about expanding the government. It’s about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.
Rush Limbaugh
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I wasn’t shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.
Tyler-The Creator
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Good music will always be recognized in the end.
Suga
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I have joined the ‘suffragettes’ – the militant party on the woman suffrage question.
Alice Paul
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It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Francis of Assisi
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My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
John Lewis
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I need to complete my homework on time.
Malala Yousafzai
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I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.
Michelle Obama
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Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
Jimmy Buffett
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