"My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on."
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"A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together."
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"Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor."
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"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
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"Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?"
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"The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind."
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"The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind."
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"People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself."
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"A belief is an idea around which we close our minds."
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"You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence."
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"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone."
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"Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story."
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"It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind."
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"Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing."
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"One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart."
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"It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet."
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"Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!"
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"Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for."
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"Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour."
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"Meditation applies the brakes to the mind."
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