"In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?"
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"The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed."
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"All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds."
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"Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her."
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"Fear is the mind-killer."
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"Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture."
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"There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty."
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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
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"They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind."
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"My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth."
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"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."
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"The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics."
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"Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself."
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"In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities."
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"Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there."
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"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."
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"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."
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"See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan"
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"I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]"
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"Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution."
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