Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.
Pete Buttigieg
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It’s always fun to talk about jazz.
Clint Eastwood
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You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Women absolutely deserve respect.
Aretha Franklin
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Francis Bacon
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
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I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.
Mark Zuckerberg
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When I first began to write fiction, I didn’t think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.
Anthony Burgess
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