Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity – everything was anonymous or pseudonymous – and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.
Mark Zuckerberg
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
Michelle Obama
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You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Alan Watts
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
Bill Gates
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Thomas Aquinas
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge
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Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
Joel Osteen
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