Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
Henri Nouwen
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire
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The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.
Ray Bradbury
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Good environmental policy is good economic policy.
Bernie Sanders
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Of course, ‘I Will Always Love You’ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
Dolly Parton
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
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Trayvon Martin did not need to die.
Henry Rollins
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