Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that’s under economic assault and a poor community that’s getting bigger, they’re talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there’s a ‘Ferguson’ near you.
Jesse Jackson
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
Eartha Kitt
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.
Tom Brady
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I mean, I’m very, very competitive.
Phil McGraw
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Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice Walker
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf
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There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.
Ray Bradbury
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I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
Dolly Parton
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