Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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America won’t be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
Marianne Williamson
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Love thy neighbor – and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Desmond Tutu
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron
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Income inequity has to be addressed.
Joe Biden
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
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There are uses to adversity, and they don’t reveal themselves until tested. Whether it’s serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
Sonia Sotomayor
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I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.
Billy Graham
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