Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.
Kanye West
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No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
Henry Rollins
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor Hugo
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Houston
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Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf
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A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
Pope Francis
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It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially – like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
David Ogilvy
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Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us.
Ruby Bridges
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It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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