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"If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender."
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"Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason."
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"For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on."
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"The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented."
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"I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor."
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"Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime."
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"Chess is a cold bath for the mind"
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"Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled."
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"The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man."
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"Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it."
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"And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man."
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"Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind."
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"She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do."
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"If you really take a step back and observe people who are considered super-normal and watch them a bit, you'll realize that they're actually completely out of their minds! Most people are really nuts, and that's fascinating."
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"And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?"
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"When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones."
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"Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen."
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"Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes."
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"When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible."
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