"The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind."
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"Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life."
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"Our handicaps exist only in our minds."
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"A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world"
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"I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free ."
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"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment"
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"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor."
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"A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths."
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"And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other."
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"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."
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"For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade."
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"I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible."
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"Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things."
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"The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind."
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"There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being."
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"There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind."
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"The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts."
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"There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time."
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"Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good."
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"I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other."
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