"I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of."
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"The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control."
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"There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal."
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"Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity."
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"Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket."
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"Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us."
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"perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind."
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"Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy."
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"My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills."
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"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."
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"We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence."
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"I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him."
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"Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it."
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"Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live."
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"The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things."
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"Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it."
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"'m so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go."
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"The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it."
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"Often a retrospect delights the mind."
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"It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition."
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