"Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!"
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"Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence."
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"Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind."
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"My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies."
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"The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?"
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"Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart"
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"When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things."
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"Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty."
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"The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them."
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"Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers."
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"A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind."
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"Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being."
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"A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well."
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"Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake."
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"Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist."
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"I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks."
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"Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material."
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"The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind."
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"The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind."
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"PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!"
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