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"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind."
Ella Maillart
"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind."
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"Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind."
Bob Denver
"Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind."
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"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind."
Washington Allston
"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind."
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"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."
S. I. Hayakawa
"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."
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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."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"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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"If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha."
Bodhidharma
"If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha."
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"Keep violence in the mind where it belongs."
Brian Aldiss
"Keep violence in the mind where it belongs."
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"So in my mind I own a lot of house records still."
Mark Spitz
"So in my mind I own a lot of house records still."
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"If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it."
Rio Ferdinand
"If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it."
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"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
Leonardo da Vinci
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
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"It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable."
Rudy Rucker
"It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable."
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"In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be."
Gloria Steinem
"In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be."
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"As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha."
Bodhidharma
"As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha."
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"What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights."
Kate Bush
"What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights."
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"It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus."
Hesiod
"It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus."
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"Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence."
Vernon Howard
"Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence."
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"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."
Bill Watterson
"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."
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"A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself."
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself."
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"The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in."
Eric Roberts
"The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in."
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"To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape."
Jennifer Capriati
"To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape."
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"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
Muhammad Iqbal
"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
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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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"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
William Shakespeare
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
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"At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's."
Alexander Woollcott
"At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's."
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"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
Dan Quayle
"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."
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"What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish."
David Sarnoff
"What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish."
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"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."
Alfred Russel Wallace
"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."
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"The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind."
Bodhidharma
"The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind."
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"The mind is a good servant but a bad master."
Osho
"The mind is a good servant but a bad master."
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"A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind."
Dawn Powell
"A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind."
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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
George Santayana
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
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"There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them."
Richard O'Brien
"There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them."
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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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"Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher."
Garth Ennis
"Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher."
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"I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind."
Gene Tierney
"I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind."
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"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
Arnold Bennett
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
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"The function of a heart is to keep the body alive, I genuinely believe it is mind which takes care of everything else."
Amit Kalantri
"The function of a heart is to keep the body alive, I genuinely believe it is mind which takes care of everything else."
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"Travelling expands the mind rarely."
Hans Christian Andersen
"Travelling expands the mind rarely."
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"I'm a historian in my own mind."
Quentin Tarantino
"I'm a historian in my own mind."
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"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
Tom Wilson
"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
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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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"A problem is a problem only when it is taken as a problem."
Idries Shah
"A problem is a problem only when it is taken as a problem."
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"On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math."
Josh Lucas
"On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math."
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"I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind."
Joanne Woodward
"I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind."
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"Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind."
Terry Goodkind
"Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind."
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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."
William Shakespeare
"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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"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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"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
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"All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are."
Abhijit Naskar
"All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are."
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"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
John Updike
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
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