Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle
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I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Aldous Huxley
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‘Can any of us imagine better,’ but, ‘Can we all do better?’
Abraham Lincoln
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
Eartha Kitt
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If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‘Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.
Will Rogers
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
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I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
Alice Walker
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