"Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds."
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"Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars."
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"The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy."
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"In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's guilt-free gossiping that you can have. It's like the modern-day soap opera, in my mind."
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"My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone."
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"I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house."
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"The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine."
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"Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable."
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"The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom."
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"The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind."
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"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads."
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"Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself."
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"We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty."
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"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants."
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"There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
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"Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue."
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"I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up."
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"I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood."
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"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end."
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"There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind."
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