"The devil's in most people. Not me, mind you, but most."
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"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds."
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"I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value."
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"I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person."
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"The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time."
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"If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves."
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"If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind."
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"I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK."
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"It's very difficult when you have learned something a certain way. Not only your mind absorbs it; your eyes also are trained to see in a certain way because eyes are only as good as you've been trained to see."
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"She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry."
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"A hungry mind is not free, and I felt if we were really going to make a difference and fight poverty we should at least start with the ability to feed ourselves, and the millions of Africans who don't have it."
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"Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory."
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"We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds"
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"With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman"
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"No matter whether your life is pleasant or good; whether you are having big challenges or no challenges, your state of your mind has everything to do with how you will relate to your experiences."
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"Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music."
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"If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of."
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"What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist."
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"Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control."
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"Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure."
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