"There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it."
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"The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body."
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"To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind."
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"All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief."
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"He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears."
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"Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother."
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"I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me."
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"I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing."
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"The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others."
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"The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind."
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"She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind."
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"My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming."
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"This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore."
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"What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself. We look, and we see what we find, and we cannot say ahead of time successfully what it is going to look like. ... It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions."
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"I can't say I based [Carla] on anybody I knew. She was so foulmouthed and mean, just said what was on her mind. So I guess Carla is somebody I always wished I could be at the right moment, the one who always has the perfect comeback."
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"My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me."
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"Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or triflingly, God of War, but I did not have such a gendered muse in mind then."
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"If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority."
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"So this is America. They must be out of their minds."
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"Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind."
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