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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist
Mind

"Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think."

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William Gilbert Physician, Scientist
Mind

"O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!"

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
Mind

"In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
Mind

"Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
Mind

"Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply."

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William Samuel Johnson Politician, Lawyer
Mind

"Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Mind

"Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind."

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