"He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever."
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"The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history."
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"If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong."
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"Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind."
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"We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy."
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"Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision."
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"The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us."
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"The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover."
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"Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash."
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"Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating."
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"It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite."
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"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
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"Happiness is in the mind, experiences of joy or pleasure should be found in the body; but ongoing joy, pure unadulterated joy, that feeling of bliss for no reason comes when you feel like your life matters because it matters to more than yourself."
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"The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day."
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"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself"
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"My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball."
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"I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind."
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"In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."
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"Now, music almost feels naked in my mind."
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"The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery."
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