Mind Quotes
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In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.
John Ralston Saul
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Backbends are not poses meant for expressionism. Backbends are meant to understand the back parts of our bodies. The front body can be seen with the eyes, but the back body can only be felt. That's why I say these are the most advanced postures, where the mind begins to look at the back.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.
William Warburton
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw
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Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.
Lenny Kravitz
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
E. F. Schumacher
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While playing complex characters you're staying in the same place but you're departing with your mind and soul and educating yourself until you can really understand such huge worlds. Those are the roles that keep loyal to the authenticity of what people are, and not caricatures. It's something that requires me to prepare for three, four months. I love the process of it, rather than, "Okay, I'm ready, I'm set with the wardrobe that somebody else chose for me."
Moran Atias
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Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
Cynthia Heimel
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The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.
Madame de Stael
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Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.
Joanna Russ
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.
David Mixner
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My life and my mind, I realized, were screwed up enough without me adding to it with drugs.
M. William Phelps
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This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.
Vladimir Bukovsky
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Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
Virginia Woolf
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Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
Berkeley Breathed
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The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.
Chelsea Manning
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A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
Jimmy Wales
