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"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."
Natalie Clifford Barney
"If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it."
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"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
Henri Bergson
"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
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"We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong."
Jack Kerouac
"We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong."
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"In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind."
Charlotte Smith
"In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind."
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"The waist is a terrible thing to mind."
Tom Wilson
"The waist is a terrible thing to mind."
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"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."
John Lilly
"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."
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"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness."
E. M. Forster
"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness."
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Dr. Seuss
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
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"A brave mind is always impregnable."
Jeremy Collier
"A brave mind is always impregnable."
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"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."
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"I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red."
Kurtwood Smith
"I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red."
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"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
Michel de Montaigne
"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."
Francis Wright
"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."
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"A full mind is an empty bat."
Branch Rickey
"A full mind is an empty bat."
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"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
Nathalie Sarraute
"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
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"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."
Robert Frank
"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."
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"Matter is plastic in the face of Mind."
Philip K. Dick
"Matter is plastic in the face of Mind."
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"Life consists of what man is thinking about all day."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life consists of what man is thinking about all day."
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"If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it."
Wanda Jackson
"If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it."
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"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
Laurence J. Peter
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
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"The mind is deeper than the horizon, bigger than the universe, and more mysterious than space."
Debasish Mridha
"The mind is deeper than the horizon, bigger than the universe, and more mysterious than space."
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"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
Charles Horton Cooley
"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
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"Profound thinkers either become astute lovers or rebellious spirit."
Ramana Pemmaraju
"Profound thinkers either become astute lovers or rebellious spirit."
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"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."
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"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."
Edward Albee
"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."
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"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."
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"I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out."
Alan Bennett
"I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out."
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"The mind is time bound however, the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless."
Debasish Mridha
"The mind is time bound however, the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless."
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"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
Andrew Wiles
"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
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"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."
Vladimir Nabokov
"The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book."
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"The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts."
Bryant McGill
"The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts."
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"Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing."
Gary Busey
"Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing."
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"I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do."
Ewan McGregor
"I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do."
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"I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage."
Patsy Cline
"I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage."
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"The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did."
Harold H. Greene
"The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did."
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"When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going."
Alison Moyet
"When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going."
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"I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind."
Charles Bronson
"I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind."
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"Passion and strife bow down the mind."
Virgil
"Passion and strife bow down the mind."
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"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."
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"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly."
Thomas Aquinas
"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly."
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"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
Bruce Lee
"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
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"I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."
Margaret Thatcher
"I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say."
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"I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind."
Naomi Campbell
"I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind."
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"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
Franz Schubert
"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
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"You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not."
Doris Roberts
"You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not."
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"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."
Isabelle Holland
"As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind."
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"It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus."
Kristin Cashore
"It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus."
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"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
Henry James
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
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"I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind."
Graham Nash
"I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind."
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