"Most illness begins with a negative mind."
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"Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior."
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"In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind."
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"Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth."
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"All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind."
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"If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure."
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"Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind."
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"It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think."
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"Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts."
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"In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist."
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"This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods."
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"Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges."
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"I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string."
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"Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government."
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"Religion is just mind control."
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"To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath."
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
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"I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embrace these things to enhance transitions and instantly paint environments and moods."
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"Thinking is the hardest work we do."
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"Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery."
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