Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, ‘Hey, this is all right.’
Mae Jemison
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
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I always live in multiple places. I’m never in the same city for seven days.
Virgil Abloh
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
Alice Walker
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal
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I’ve worked with some really great directors, and I’m really choosy about them because they’re telling the story at the end of the day.
Brad Pitt
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I don’t want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don’t want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.
Arundhati Roy
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I’m Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.
Yasmine Hamdan
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