"We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another."
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"We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place."
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"I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears."
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"Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues."
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"Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable."
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"Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up."
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"Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself."
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"I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model."
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"I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike..."
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"His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap"
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"Even though being a kid is kind of a carefree sort of thing for the most part, I guess there are definitely a lot of things that stick in kids' minds."
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"Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind."
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"Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing."
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"Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind."
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"When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness."
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"Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination."
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"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."
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"Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't."
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"He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream."
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"The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind."
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