Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Farm workers are society’s canaries. Farm workers – and their children – demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else.
Cesar Chavez
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It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
Wayne Dyer
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur
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Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
Stephen Hawking
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There’s a select few that will never like me. They don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They’re going to be negative no matter what.
Taylor Swift
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I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Jane Goodall
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‘Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.’
Taylor Swift
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
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