"On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure."
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"Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both."
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"The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]"
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"People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds."
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"If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox."
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"Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse."
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"Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones"
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"Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings."
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"Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death."
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"When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness"
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"People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves."
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"As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration."
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"But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word"
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"... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement."
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"We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies."
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"Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind."
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"Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind."
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"What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more."
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"Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world - much more so than in fiction."
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"For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?"
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