Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
Louis Armstrong
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Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody’s ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody’s ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists’ money. No one’s ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one’s ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
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I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix
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Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
Sonia Sotomayor
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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