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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
Mind

""Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes."

Men Mind Europe
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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
Mind

"Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future."

Mind Goal Track
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Amit Abraham Author, Entrepreneur
Mind

"The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own"

Mind Fool
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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Mind

"The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point."

Life Mind Doubt
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Alan Ball Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Mind

"It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?"

Mind Organization Misunderstood
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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Mind

"Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic."

Men Mind Vices
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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Mind

"It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality."

Mind Understanding Imagination
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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Mind

"By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service."

Mind Games Causes
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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Mind

"Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation."

Mind Character Civilization
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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
Mind

"Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly."

Mind Comedy Farce
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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
Mind

"All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them."

Thinking Mind Important
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Mind

"It is time that beats in the breast and it is time That batters against the mind, silent and proud, The mind that knows it is destroyed by time."

Mind Time Proud
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Mind

"The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it."

World Mind Father
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