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"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
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"And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe."
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"Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind."
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"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."
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"When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind."
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"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."
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"It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That’s why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside."
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"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay."
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"Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free."
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"There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind."
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"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
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"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."
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"We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism."
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"Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart."
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"In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to a state of openness and receptivity. You are always in change. You are always safe."
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"The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters."
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"We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind."
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"A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest."
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"I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies."
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