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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Mind

"You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Mind

"To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Mind

"Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Mind

"The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Mind

"A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Mind

"If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region."

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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
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"I'm trolling through the recesses of my mind for the things I did with my kids when they used to like to do things with me. They don't want to be around me now. I look back on these times - all those little funny pottery dishes that you'd pay for, and they'd paint, and they were ugly, and you glazed them, and you'd go back, pick them up, and it's like, "Oh, now I've got to put this on my desk." There's all that kind of stuff."

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"It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work."

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Miguel Angel Ruiz Author, Spiritual Teacher
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"The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!"

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Miguel Angel Ruiz Author, Spiritual Teacher
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"We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe."

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