Minds Quotes
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
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Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.
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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
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But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.
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We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.
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To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
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Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
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The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.
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Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.
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If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
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Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.
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The total number of minds in the universe is one.
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
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Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.
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When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
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What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
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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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I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.
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If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.
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Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
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Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands.
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We'll never change everyone's minds. We're not supposed to.
