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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind asc...

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The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true ...

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The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it g...

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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact,...

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Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I g...

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I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't ...

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Anywhere - and, it follows, nowhere - can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to...

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Mark KingwellMeasure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays

No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sente...

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. T...

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of an...

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Mark TwainThe Autobiography of Mark Twain

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a fu...

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Mark TwainThe Prince and the Pauper

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler...

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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindednes...

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I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

God is Mind and God is infinite hence all is Mind.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain ...

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...

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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for ou...

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Max TegmarkOur Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his...

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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we c...

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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on i...

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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'...

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To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Steph...

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Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle withmyself, now I...

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Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now ...

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never s...

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t...

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes ...

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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind t...

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In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on th...

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Maybe somewhere telepaths walked the Earth, but I wasn't one of them. In the process, I began to rea...

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Michio KakuThe Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a po...

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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests w...

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I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I t...

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To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our soc...

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doin...

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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mi...

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The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerg...

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You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily reco...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the ...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy...

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I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe Birthmark and Other Stories

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, be...

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...

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I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based pa...

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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things...

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I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I d...

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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical metho...

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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and ...

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Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

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The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...

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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pic...

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affir...

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The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that,...

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A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimension...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah."Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It'...

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I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can...

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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the S...

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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; th...

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Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standar...

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The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all the...

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All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a p...

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I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contract...

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For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promi...

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does n...

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This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day ...

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While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's f...

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Never mind your happiness do your duty.

In his article, Bogen concluded: “I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person...

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Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.