Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.
Michelle Obama
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do – but that part is for me. It’s my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There’s a sadness to it, but there’s romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
Alexander McQueen
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I apologize when I’m wrong.
Donald Trump
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx
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As a U.S. Senator, I’ve tried my best to practice politics the way I think it’s supposed to be practiced – always looking for common ground and truly enjoying the people I meet along the way.
Amy Klobuchar
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Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
Erma Bombeck
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac
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I follow my desires, and I’m prepared to take the consequences.
Yasmine Hamdan
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
John Ruskin
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