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Mind Quotes
"Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?"
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"Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it."
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"The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future."
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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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"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
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"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."
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"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."
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"In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context."
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"If the human brain is really capable of having 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking."
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"The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation."
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"Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel love and avoid loneliness. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Every waking moment, and even in our dreams, we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition towards states of consciousness that we value."
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"Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind!"
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"You can only be afraid of what you think you know."
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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."
Mind,
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"I'm still thanking all the stars, one by one."
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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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"A problem is a problem only when it is taken as a problem."
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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."
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"I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it."
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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."
Mind,
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"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
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"The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free."
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"True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute."
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"I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind."
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"It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so."
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"No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians."
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"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."
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