Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
Maya Angelou
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Marcus Aurelius
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God’s divine wrath.
Malcolm X
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
Taylor Swift
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
Taylor Swift
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
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You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can’t fulfill your dreams.
Jesse Jackson
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Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.
Donald Trump
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