"We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort."

Habit, Effort, Mind

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"We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort."

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Mark Twain, American Author

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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."

Conformity

"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."

Purpose

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"All students can learn."

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"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."

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"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."

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"New York, the nation's thyroid gland."

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"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature."

Nature

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

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