Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Rush Limbaugh
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I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot
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I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.
Maya Angelou
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We have to look and ensure that we’re paying attention to what we’re doing, so that we don’t reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.
Sonia Sotomayor
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert Kennedy
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I make breakfast, which is usually Kellogg’s Red Berries or egg whites, and then I go to the gym that’s only 10 minutes away.
Simone Biles
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I have an aim – I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
Rahul Gandhi
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac
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