Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The thing is, ‘Discworld’ had been going on for a very long time, and I’ve written children’s books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I’d do is I’d franchise it to myself.
Terry Pratchett
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How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
Billy Graham
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
Terry Pratchett
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
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I like to look cool and dress nice. Lil Uzi is a rock star. Just know that.
Lil Uzi Vert
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Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.
Bob Dylan
Got any book recommendations?