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"I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear."
"I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune."
"He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind."
"A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone."
"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor."
"The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells."
"Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context."
"The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant."
"I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think."
"Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me."
"You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time."
"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind."
"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."
"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it"
"Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb."
"As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something.” “What did you have in mind?” "A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?” “Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and assorted fruit toppings?"
"We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash."
"Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind."
"The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin."
"Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt."
