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"Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality."
"The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events."
"It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency."
"The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc."
"The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man."
"It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them."
"What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events."
"The mind is an evolved computer program."
"Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a way, it validated our existence, our culture. He used the language of the street at the time and made it art. Art tends to be validating."
"Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being."
"I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself."
"My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a job."
"Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking."
"Wellness that is being allowed - or the wellness that is being denied - is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the natural rhythm of their mind. Treating the body really is about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic. Every bit of it, no exceptions."
"I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going."
"My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged."
"The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do."
"Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind."
"In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano."
"So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things."
