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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
Mind

"Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
Mind

"...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society"

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Mind

"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another."

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Robert Adams Photographer
Mind

"There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine."

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Mencius Philosopher
Mind

"If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed."

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Ivan Pavlov Physiologist
Mind

"Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without."

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Plato Philosopher
Mind

"The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!"

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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
Mind

"The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct."

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Alfred Hitchcock Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Mind

"Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
Mind

"Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars."

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Rene Magritte Surrealist Artist
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"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been."

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