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Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does ...

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Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

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The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is n...

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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear p...

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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; s...

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I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same ...

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The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth o...

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I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so fa...

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Baruch SpinozaOn the Improvement of the Understanding

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my m...

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By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. O...

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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in s...

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Bertrand RussellA History of Western Philosophy

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in t...

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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges b...

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Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living...

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th...

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Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of...

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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart h...

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The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely mor...

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Blaise PascalThe Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous pe...

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I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions th...

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Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix its...

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She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...

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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is th...

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The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard...

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I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly...

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When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappe...

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For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being...

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Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and w...

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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is ...

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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know ...

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I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was do...

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Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. ...

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Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single min...

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An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

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I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met ...

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That would be showing him a part of her soul, a part of her mind, that she's never risked showing an...

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He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away but he who is not in our heart i...

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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; ther...

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Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing hi...

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Charles BabbagePassages from the Life of a Philosopher

unaccountably we are aloneforever aloneand it was meant to bethat way,it was never meantto be any ot...

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But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a ...

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Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfor...

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, h...

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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and en...

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Charles DickensThe Pickwick Papers

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...

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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...

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We can burst the bonds which chain us,Which cold human hands have wrought,And where none shall dare ...

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy....

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I don't mind not being cool.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change thei...

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinkin...

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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the ...

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I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the ide...

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But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the...

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In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes.To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for the...

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Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project ...

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To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywrit...

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The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling ...

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I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believin...

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There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's m...

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Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

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Craig GroeschelDare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I ...

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A moralit...

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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the f...

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