"Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you."
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"Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life."
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"...you're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind"
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"To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
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"One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another."
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"I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses."
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"In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable."
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"Food makes my mind sluggish."
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"A great empire and little minds go ill together."
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"Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies."
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"Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts."
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"Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it."
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"So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood."
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"Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science."
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"Islam does not mean peace. It means submission. The word "peace" for Muslims has a different meaning. Peace, according to Muslims, will be achieved when everyone submits to Islam. Muslims can't offer peace. They can offer truce. In their minds, peace will be achieved only when you are subdued and they are the masters. Any other arrangement is not Islamic."
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"Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities."
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"To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously."
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"The mind is made up by what it feeds upon."
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"You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created."
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"You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason."
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