Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.
Taylor Swift
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In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.
Noam Chomsky
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I have seen some crazy people do some crazy things on my variety show. I have to stop and ask them a lot of the time, just how they figured out that they could do the things that they do, some of it is just plain freaky.
Steve Harvey
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson
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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.
John Lewis
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Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus
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