"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."
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"Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time."
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"That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds."
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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them."
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"In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation."
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"There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray."
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"Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America."
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"To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual."
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"Let every man mind his own business."
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"Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness."
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"When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind."
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"Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being."
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"True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind."
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"All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being."
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"I'm a tough girl, I know what my job entails - it entails a lot more than standing in front of the camera. So I get it. I won't deny the physicality of it is exhausting, and sometimes my body just can't keep up. But it is ultimately about mind over matter."
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"Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff."
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"The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species."
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"The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary."
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""We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition."
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"The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body."
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