"Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind."
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"Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone"
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"Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment."
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"Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle."
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"Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing."
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"Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed."
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"The mind is so tricky. It will say, "No one cares. Is it true? Well, someone does. Let's see: So-and-so doesn't care. Well, maybe they do. Well, there is someone who doesn't care." It just shifts and shifts and shifts, so it can keep all of its concepts intact."
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"There's no one who can teach you except yourself. Each of us needs to look at what our belief system really consists of. Look at the concepts that come across your mind and just notice what you believe."
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"When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do."
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"Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not."
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"When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind."
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"The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed."
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"Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds."
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"I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes."
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"The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage."
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"Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer."
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"...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind."
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"I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back."
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"There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter"
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"As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind."
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