"If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found."
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"Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us."
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"The resolved mind hath no cares."
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"Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation."
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"I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it."
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"The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements."
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"Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man."
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"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
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"Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable."
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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
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"Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship."
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"That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it."
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"There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind."
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"It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips."
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"The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music."
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"Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography"
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"Stern men with empires in their brains."
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"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."
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"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."
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"I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform."
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