Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I was saving the name of ‘Geisel’ for the Great American Novel.
Dr. Seuss
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For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
George Santayana
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You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.
Kevin Hart
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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham Lincoln
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I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
Jimmy Wales
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Unless you’ve been touched personally, it’s difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
Roger Daltrey
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
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The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
John Lewis
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