"For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose."
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"The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture."
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"What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder."
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"Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta."
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"The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope."
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"We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order."
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"The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them."
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"I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant."
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"The human mind is not meant to be governed, certainly not by any book of rules yet written; it is supposed to run itself, and we are obliged to follow it along, trying to keep up with it as best we can."
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"We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion."
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"In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years."
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"Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police."
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"Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary."
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"Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend."
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"I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me."
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"I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey."
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"This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles."
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"Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind."
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"Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous."
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"When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you."
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