Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can’t afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can’t allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
Yusuf Hamied
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
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As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
George Harrison
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.
Will Rogers
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I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Resist the need to be ‘right’ all the time or to always have the last word.
Joyce Meyer
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
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All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There’s eight.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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