Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Marcus Aurelius
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I’m not ever going to retire. That’s – that wouldn’t be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that’s not moi.
Aretha Franklin
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Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.
Taylor Swift
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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson
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I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
Marianne Williamson
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family – the founders of Wal-Mart.
Bernie Sanders
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