Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
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We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.
Michael Bloomberg
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I believe in capitalism as long as there’s a strong rule of law around it.
Pete Buttigieg
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I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
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We encrypt ‘Drag Race’ with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the ’80s.
RuPaul
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I consider myself kind of a reporter – one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
Mary Oliver
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As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.
Misty Copeland
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
Rahm Emanuel
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