"Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure"
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"All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence."
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"Minds differ still more than faces."
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"I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve."
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"Sex is so much more in the mind than in the body."
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"You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen."
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"A mind enclosed in language is in prison."
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"We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something."
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"As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire."
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"You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more."
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"Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind."
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"The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it."
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"I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds."
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"In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you."
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."
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"Empty your mind of all thoughts."
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"The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another."
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"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."
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"If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation."
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"The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan."
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