"The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind."
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"You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel."
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"Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn."
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"Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course."
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"Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection."
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"Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made."
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"What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals."
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"Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it passes beyond the scale of our comprehension."
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"What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same."
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"It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds."
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"Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business."
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"A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind."
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"Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness"
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"I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever."
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"If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life."
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"Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare."
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"For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion."
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"I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful."
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"If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is."
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"Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?"
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