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Mind Quotes
"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."
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"Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words."
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"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle."
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"Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged."
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"I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind."
Mind,
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"Your thoughts, the way you think is the most powerful influence in your life."
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"The problem with introspection is that it has no end."
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"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."
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"If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind."
Mind,
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"Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth."
Mind,
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"An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof."
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"I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not."
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"In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing."
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"To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks."
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"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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"You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for."
Mind,
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"His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus."
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"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
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"Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."
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"I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind."
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"I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop."
Mind,
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"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
Mind,
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"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."
Mind,
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"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind,
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"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
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"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do."
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"Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us."
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"Your brain is wider than the sky."
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"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."
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"Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy."
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