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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behin...

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In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his res...

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He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been suff...

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Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe...

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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, the...

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Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had ne...

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Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to...

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I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it'...

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A feeble body weakens the mind.

I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and...

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I believe consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spi...

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It ...

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To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness,...

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To put it differently, as long as mind and heart are caught up in want, in desire, there must be emp...

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But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal o...

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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in...

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The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women,

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

To end the greatest work designed,A thousand hands need but one mind.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so ric...

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I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. Afte...

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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind i...

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When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind ca...

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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was...

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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

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John DeweyArt as Experience

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will d...

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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fun...

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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Open wide the mind's cage-door,She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

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John KeatsThe Complete Poems

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read o...

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You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the ev...

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The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

Infernal world, and thou profoundest HellReceive thy new Possessor: One who bringsA mind not to be c...

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Your mind was made to know and love God.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the wor...

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Your mind was made to know and love God.

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Your mind was made to know and love God.

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Your mind was made to know and love God.

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find tha...

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Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns...

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The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and bec...

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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best ...

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Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effo...

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It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, a...

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most impo...

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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to...

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True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruli...

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So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it...

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[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of...

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It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the major...

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Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things out...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

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A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to expr...

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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all th...

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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the fu...

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But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a ...

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The mind of man is capable of anything.

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the...

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectr...

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Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, in...

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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocab...

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O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What i...

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Julian JaynesThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached t...

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I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if yo...

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The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mi...

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned fr...

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The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, ...

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I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that...

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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to lif...

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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wond...

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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps ...

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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wo...

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It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behav...

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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?