"For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows."
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"I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch."
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"Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions"
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"An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same."
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"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."
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"The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable."
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"More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm."
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"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
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"In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up."
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"The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible."
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"We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing."
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"To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane."
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"The mind's the standard of the man."
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"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."
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"In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings."
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"I know not what to do, my mind is divided"
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"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
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"Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not."
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"In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of."
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"Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health."
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