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Mind Quotes
"I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened."
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"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."
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"Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis."
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"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."
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"Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?"
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"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."
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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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"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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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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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
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"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
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"The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."
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"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
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"Sight is seeing with the eyes, vision is seeing with the mind."
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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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"You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
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"When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want."
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"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
Mind,
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"Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror."
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"You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!"
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"It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black."
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"Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it's too vivid, if you know what I mean. And when I start having thoughts like this, the more I think about it, the less I can tell how much of the vividness is real and how much of it my imagination has invented."
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"Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!"
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"Humans have better wings than birds: Human mind is a perfect wing and with this wing we can fly to some farthermost places no bird can ever dream! Yes, mind is a wing; and when it comes to flying man is the most sophisticated bird on earth!"
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"The chit is semi-animate (half-alive) and the mind is completely physical."
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"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
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