Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school’s steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my teacher, who couldn’t have been more different from them. She was one of the most loving people I had ever known.
Ruby Bridges
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
Virgil
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Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space.
Pete Buttigieg
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To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
Amy Klobuchar
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You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.
Muhammad Ali
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
Rumi
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
Marianne Williamson
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
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