Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it’s just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am.
Pete Buttigieg
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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck
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I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.
Joyce Meyer
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As his team prepares, a coach’s entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
Bobby Knight
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
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Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Vladimir Lenin
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
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Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
Stephen Hawking
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.
Dolly Parton
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