Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
Sojourner Truth
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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.
Donald Trump
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
Zadie Smith
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
Arthur Ashe
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me it’s good. But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about.
Aretha Franklin
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Got any book recommendations?