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In the realm of idle thoughts, serenity becomes the canvas where life's finest creations patiently await their brush. Habitual relating may rob this canvas of it whole multi-tinted aesthetics.
Author:
Linnea Morgan
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Imagination is the mind's artful rebellion, painting portals in opaque walls that only the alleys of creation can thrill.
Author:
KalUn Asabi
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Imagination wanders beyond the map and traces the unseen steps to new beginnings.
Author:
Lena Vallian
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Quantum consciousness invites us to dance on the fringes of reality's boundaries, illuminating possibilities that thrive beyond our measurement.
Author:
Elaine Chang
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The mind is like a pitcher, it must be emptied before it can be filled with new ideas.
Author:
Sophia Park
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The chaos in our minds often births the symphony of creativity in our souls.
Author:
Grace Williams
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The mind is a powerful engine fueled by curiosity and creativity, propelling us towards endless possibilities.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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True freedom comes from understanding that the mind is the only prison we can never escape from.
Author:
Raven Nightingale
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The mind is like a parachute - it only works when it is open.
Author:
Samantha Thompson
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The mind is a powerful battlefield, but the heart is where true love wins the war.
Author:
Sophia Liu
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In the pursuit of knowledge, one must be willing to explore the uncharted depths of the mind.
Author:
Samantha Johnson
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The mind is like a parachute - it only works when it's open.
Author:
Samantha Lee
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Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.
Author:
Fuzzy Zoeller
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When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
Author:
Howard Zinn
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If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
Author:
Florenz Ziegfeld
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Author:
Xun Zi
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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.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
Author:
Jack Youngblood
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In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
Author:
James Young
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Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
Author:
James Young
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
Author:
Andrew Young
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Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.
Author:
Tina Yothers
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Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.
Author:
Isabel Yosito
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
Author:
William Yeats
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Author:
William Yeats
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Author:
Gao Xingjian
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It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).
Author:
Jennifer Wyatt
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Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
Author:
Wilhelm Wundt
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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
Author:
Wilhelm Wundt
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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
Author:
Steven Wright
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Author:
Frank Wright
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
Author:
Francis Wright
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
Author:
Francis Wright
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Author:
Frances Wright
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The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Author:
John Woolman
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At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
Author:
Alexander Woollcott
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.
Author:
Joanne Woodward
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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Author:
John Wooden
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
Author:
John Wooden
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Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.
Author:
Roy Wood
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
Author:
Frederick Wiseman
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Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
Author:
Frederick Wiseman
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Author:
Isaac Wise
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.
Author:
Alex Winter
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Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
Author:
Dave Winer
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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
Author:
Tom Wilson
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The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Author:
Tom Wilson
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Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
Author:
E. Wilson
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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
Author:
E. Wilson
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
Author:
E. Wilson
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Author:
Colin Wilson
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
Author:
Nathaniel Willis
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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
Author:
Walter Williams
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Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.
Author:
Treat Williams
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The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.
Author:
Roy Williams
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To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.
Author:
Robbie Williams
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I started writing more with my voice in mind.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
Author:
Esther Williams
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His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
Author:
Emma Willard
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
Author:
George Will
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Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
Author:
John Wilkins
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The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.
Author:
Dominique Wilkins
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Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.
Author:
Dominique Wilkins
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
Author:
Richard Wilbur
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I'm happy out of my mind. I like beating a lot of people.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
Author:
Benjamin Whorf
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
Author:
George Whitefield
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
Author:
E. White
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Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
Author:
William Whewell
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
Author:
Edward Weston
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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Author:
Rebecca West
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When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
Author:
Jerry West
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians.
Author:
Curt Weldon
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The mind can also be an erogenous zone.
Author:
Raquel Welch
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Author:
Simone Weil
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Author:
Noah Webster
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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
Author:
John Webster
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.
Author:
Fritz Weaver
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I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.
Author:
Mike Watt
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
Author:
Thomas Watson, Sr.
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No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
Author:
Tom Watson
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I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
Author:
Pete Waterman
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I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
Author:
Charles Warner
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
Author:
Mary Ward
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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
Author:
William Warburton
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First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.
Author:
Rob Walton
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If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.
Author:
Rob Walton
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If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.
Author:
Rob Walton
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I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
Author:
Bill Walton
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I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.
Author:
Julie Walters
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A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
Author:
Mika Waltari
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
Author:
J. Walsh
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All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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You've got to keep an open mind.
Author:
Chris Wallace
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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
Author:
Edward Walker
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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Simplicity is a state of mind.
Author:
Charles Wagner
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
Author:
Abdoulaye Wade
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The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
Author:
Diana Vreeland
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
Author:
Bernard Voto
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Author:
Voltaire
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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.
Author:
David Vitter
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I make records with an open mind, I always have.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Author:
Virgil
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Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Author:
Virgil
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Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Author:
Virgil
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Mind moves matter.
Author:
Virgil
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Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Author:
Virgil
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.
Author:
Tomas Victoria
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Author:
Giambattista Vico
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The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Author:
Giambattista Vico
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In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
Author:
Linda Vester
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I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
Author:
Johnny Vegas
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I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Author:
Bill Veeck
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.
Author:
Amber Valletta
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
Author:
John Updike
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I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
Author:
Al Unser
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A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated.
Author:
Nobuo Uematsu
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As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.
Author:
Nobuo Uematsu
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
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Steven Tyler
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Mark Twain
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The mind is just another muscle.
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Ted Turner
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My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
Author:
Christy Turlington
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
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Harriet Tubman
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I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.
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Paul Tsongas
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Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
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Paul Tsongas
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It is the mind that makes the body.
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Sojourner Truth
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Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
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Donald Trump
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When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
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Harry Truman
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Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
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Harry Truman
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I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
Author:
Garry Trudeau
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
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Robert Trout
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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
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Patrick Troughton
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Leon Trotsky
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
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Anthony Trollope
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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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Anthony Trollope
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Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
Author:
Herbert Tree
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Author:
Thomas Traherne
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
Author:
Aiden Tozer
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You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
Author:
Aiden Tozer
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Lily Tomlin
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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
Author:
Mike Todd
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Alexis Tocqueville
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
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John Tillotson
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I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
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Thucydides
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There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
Author:
George Thorogood
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To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
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Edward Thorndike
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
Author:
Virgil Thomson
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Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
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Dorothy Thompson
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
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Lewis Thomas
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
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Paul Theroux
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Author:
Paul Theroux
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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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William Thackeray
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You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
Author:
Sonny Terry
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Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
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Terence
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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
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Terence
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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Author:
Edwin Teale
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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Author:
Susan Taylor
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Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Author:
Jane Taylor
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It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
Author:
Andy Taylor
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I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
Author:
Audrey Tautou
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Ida Tarbell
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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Quentin Tarantino
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I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
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Henry Tanner
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The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
Author:
Koichi Tanaka
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I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
Author:
Amy Tan
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Author:
Thomas Szasz
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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Publilius Syrus
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We're really happy. It still kind of blows my mind that people watch the show!
Author:
Ryan Sypek
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In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
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Thomas Sydenham
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Anne Swetchine
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
Author:
Shunryu Suzuki
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Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.
Author:
Donna Summer
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I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
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Arthur Sulzberger
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I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Author:
Anne Sullivan
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Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.
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Charles Sturt
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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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Harriet Stowe
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
Author:
W. Stone
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Author:
W. Stone
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For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.
Author:
Joss Stone
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In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.
Author:
Louis Stokes
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Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
Author:
Bram Stoker
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Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
Author:
Andrew Still
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I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
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Martha Stewart
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
Author:
Leslie Stephen
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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Author:
Richard Steele
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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
Author:
Richard Steele
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I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
Author:
Peter Steele
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Author:
Barbara Steele
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With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.
Author:
Johannes Stark
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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
Author:
Johannes Stark
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From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Author:
Madame Stael
