Minds Quotes
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I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.
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Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.
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Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
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I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.
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Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.
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It's been forever since we have had everybody here, everybody healthy and everybody ready to go. Before this game I talked to the girls and we had a meeting of the minds and I really didn't know what to expect but the deal was we needed to come out and play our hearts out.
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On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.
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Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
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There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most.
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If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.
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I have long been in favor of states and cities within states making up their own minds whether or not they want to permit fracking. I have been supportive of that.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there.
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It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
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The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
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Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.
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Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
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Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
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We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.
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Why is it that a connection that seems to have nothing to do with looks—because it feels so much deeper than that, like a connection of minds and souls—is actually entirely dependent on looks?
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It is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
