Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
Bill Gates
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In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!
Noam Chomsky
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I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke
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We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Ronald Reagan
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We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
C. S. Lewis
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The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that’s because I’m a rapper. I need jewelry.
Cardi B
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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
Sun Tzu
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What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we’re going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
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