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"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."
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"Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!"

"You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!"

"A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much."

"You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation."
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"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die."

"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure."

"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."

"You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words."

"In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read."
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