"I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."
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"To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious."
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"Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words."
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"I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated"
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"When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind."
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"The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind."
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"This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period."
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"In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds."
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator."
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"The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind."
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"Language is an old-growth forest of the mind."
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"The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment."
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"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind."
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"I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it."
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"[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's."
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"Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know."
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"My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got."
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"The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart."
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"Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins."
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"Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade."
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