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Mind Quotes


"It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both."


"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."


"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much."
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"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."



"I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself."


"There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x - ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms."


"A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic."


"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you."


"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
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"Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?"


"Lastly I'd say this " true religion, as a part of Neuroscience " a study of the mind " is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind has. In some form or other, it is an evolutionary necessity of the human mind, not a luxury."


"Don't you ever think that your mind can never harm you just because it is your mind! Your mind can really kill you. From dawn to the time you retire, your mind can be a very good friend to you and your mind can also be your worst friend. What goes into your mind each day becomes your friend so mind your mind!"


"It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence."



"I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen."
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"The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free."



"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."


"It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again."
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"No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own."


"I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale."


"What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer."


"I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can."
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"Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds."


"Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit."


"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."


"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."


"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception."


"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."


"But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting."
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