"In the mind there is no absolute or free will."
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"The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished."
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"Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection."
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"We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine."
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"Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude."
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"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."
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"My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer."
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"That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind."
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"The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one"
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"Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?"
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"I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."
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"to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance."
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"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind."
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"[In picking stocks] You really have to know a lot about business. You have to know a lot about competitive advantage. You have to know a lot about the maintainability of competitive advantage. You have to have a mind that quantifies things in terms of value. And you have to be able to compare those values with other values available in the stock market."
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"What Trump is onto is, he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's... I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it."
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"There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas."
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"Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures."
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"Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived."
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"For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from."
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"When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved."
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