Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If you’re differently-abled, if you’re a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that’s different from the norm, for whatever reason, there’s an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon
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Sleep is important for a comic – like it is for a lot of people.
Tom Segura
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
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If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.
Billy Graham
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Uh, do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that’s in them. The means that he used to do that, I can’t say, but I do believe in that fundamental truth.
Mike Pence
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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Colin Powell
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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy
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