Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison
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I think there’s a weapon of cynicism to say, ‘Protest doesn’t work. Organizing doesn’t work. Y’all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn’t do anything,’ because, frankly, it’s said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
Stephen Covey
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
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Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
Joyce Meyer
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl
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My first CD that I had was the Ying Yang Twinz, and my grandma bought it for me. Honestly, I think my grandma got it from a thrift store or something. She just got it for me. It was in downtown Philadelphia. And I would listen to it. I liked it. None of my friends did, though, but I liked it.
Lil Uzi Vert
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
Got any book recommendations?