Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Langston Hughes
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White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life.
Yance Ford
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
Henry Rollins
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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.
Bernie Sanders
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
Noam Chomsky
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It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
Donald Trump
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel de Montaigne
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Rock is so much fun. That’s what it’s all about – filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix
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I think ‘Dead Poets’ was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.
Robin Williams
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