Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Viktor E. Frankl
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I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
Michelle Obama
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
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If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Maya Angelou
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Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.
Bernie Sanders
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When Kennedy said, ‘Let’s go to the moon,’ we didn’t yet have a vehicle that wouldn’t kill you on launch. He said we’ll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
Alice Walker
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Where a man can live, he can also live well.
Marcus Aurelius
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