Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.
John Lewis
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison
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Richard Dreyfuss, when we were doing ‘American Graffiti,’ was pumping me to vote for McGovern. But I think I wound up going for Nixon. I thought he could get us out of the Vietnam War quickly. Ha.
Ron Howard
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Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Honore de Balzac
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In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
Groucho Marx
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
Joel Osteen
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
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