"Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war."
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"Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity."
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"Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge"
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"The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart."
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"A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights."
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"Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe."
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"The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming."
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"Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
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"Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives."
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"When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation."
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"Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace."
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"The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over."
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"People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds."
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"There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word."
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"It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander."
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"I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey."
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"Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind."
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"In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling."
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"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."
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"The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit."
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