Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway
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If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Richard M. Nixon
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James Madison
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We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs… to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they’re going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.
Elizabeth Warren
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I have enormous respect for people who do run for office.
Condoleezza Rice
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At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.
Mary Oliver
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Today, you expand or you are expendable.
Les Brown
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My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
Denzel Washington
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Henri Nouwen
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Susan B. Anthony
Got any book recommendations?