"Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical."
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"Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea."
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"ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking."
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"Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit."
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"Wilderness begins in the human mind."
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"Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy."
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"Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind."
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"Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?"
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"Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things."
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"Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart."
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"I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids."
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"Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest."
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"Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it."
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"Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient."
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"The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration."
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"When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen."
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"An intriguing mind is a powerful aphrodisiac."
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"Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat."
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"You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it"
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"Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42"
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