"I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing."
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"She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!"
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"So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies."
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"There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind."
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"Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others."
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"Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind."
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"When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible."
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"Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress."
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"Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God"
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"I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture."
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"Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word."
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"As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions."
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"Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot."
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"The mind of man is capable of anything."
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"When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image."
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"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
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"Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know."
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"Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind."
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"In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground."
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"Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated."
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