Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
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The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads… It includes… the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.
Robert Kennedy
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I’m here to say all lives matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
Voltaire
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
John D. Rockefeller
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Epictetus
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Do I feel like I’m 65? No. I feel like I’m 15. That’s my problem. I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.
Ric Flair
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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. Nixon
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