Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson
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Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles R. Swindoll
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My mommy raised me so well.
Lil Peep
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
Rahm Emanuel
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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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I don’t know if he remembers, but the first time I ever met Cudi was the first time I met Kanye. I’ve never told anyone this, but it was the same day. That was the first time I was around G.O.O.D. Music at all. I was sitting like, ‘Man, I’m in the presence of ‘Ye and Cudi. This is the art level where I want to be.’
Travis Scott
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
D. H. Lawrence
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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