Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.
Ray Bradbury
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When I’m on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should.
Nina Simone
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey Hepburn
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You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson
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If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
Joel Osteen
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August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
Henry Rollins
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I don’t want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We’d be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That’s a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s what scientists do every day.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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