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"Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog."
"I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind."
"I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently."
"The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth."
"Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit."
"Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind."
"Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix."
"Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!"
"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."
"I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?"
"Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind."
"Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind."
"The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet."
"The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it"
"Tis an ill wind that blows no minds."
"I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!"
"Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency."
"If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly."
"The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind."
"Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd."
