Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
Audre Lorde
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Ambrose Bierce
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
Noam Chomsky
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Thomas Sowell
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The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.
Kobe Bryant
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A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams
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Under Superintendent Johnson’s leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Benito Mussolini
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