Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau
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There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
John Lewis
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One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
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Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it’s able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.
Rush Limbaugh
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama
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I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It’s been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.
Maria Sharapova
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle
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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
Jimmy Wales
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Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
Virgil
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