Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Chicago is where the whole idea of community policing began. It remains the – the best and the most comprehensive approach we have in changing the everyday conditions that breed crime and violence – and then breed mistrust. We have more work to do. We need better training to live up to the values and the principles of community policing.
Rahm Emanuel
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
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Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Audre Lorde
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I’ve started most of the time I’ve been in a Knick jersey, so I just think they want me to bring a certain energy every night. They want me to bring that defensive presence because they know I can make something out of nothing on defense, and I think they just want me to bring that defensive presence every day.
Iman Shumpert
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Larry Merchant’s just a commentator. He don’t know nothing about boxing.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.
RuPaul
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You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.
Phil McGraw
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I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
Maya Angelou
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