"Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind."
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"I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at."
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"Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind."
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"Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?"
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"Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent."
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"Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me."
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"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
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"I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life."
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"It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind."
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"If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind."
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"If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
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"Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind."
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"When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic."
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"When the # mind is strong and the # heart is pure, you are free"
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"The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind."
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"Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing."
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"The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds."
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"Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task."
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"I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind."
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"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them."
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