Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.
Elizabeth Warren
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Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.
Joyce Meyer
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren’t hungry, they wouldn’t work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner
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Though she be but little, she is fierce.
William Shakespeare
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A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya Angelou
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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Henry David Thoreau
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.
Taylor Swift
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
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I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.
Billy Graham
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