Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare
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The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves.
Bernie Sanders
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I can’t stand to see myself on television.
Bob Dylan
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell
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I know when I go outside, there’ll be a van or two and they’ll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I’m just going across town and I know they’re just wasting their day, so it doesn’t bother me anymore.
Brad Pitt
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Remember that before ‘Roe v. Wade’ was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that’s what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.
Pope Francis
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The thing that makes me different from any other rapper is that I usually talk real crazy in my songs.
Lil Uzi Vert
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Sometimes when you’re playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That’s much more interesting to me, rather than just playing ‘intense.’ I find it too boring.
Irrfan Khan
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