Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.
Susan B. Anthony
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True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.
Marianne Williamson
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.
Kurt Cobain
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens
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We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.
Joel Osteen
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When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
Joe Biden
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