"The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does."
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"This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice."
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"The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents from the Communist bloc. They did not envision the mass displacements of people we are seeing today."
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"Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion."
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"In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning."
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"For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds."
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"One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others."
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"a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind."
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"NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors."
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"Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind."
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"Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth."
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"I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to."
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"I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true."
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"Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind"
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"When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said."
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"O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain."
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"It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship"
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"Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise."
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"On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes."
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"You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind."
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