Minds Quotes
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The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.
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Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
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I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
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I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
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Denial, they say, stands for "Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
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You will see us growing the business organically as hard as we can, but equally keeping our minds open as to whether we can grow inorganically as well.
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Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
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We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
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In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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Sometimes it’s the complication, which just lies in our minds.
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When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.
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Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
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Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
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If we are faithful in keeping the commandments of God His promises will be fulfilled to the very letter. . . . The trouble is, the adversary of men's souls blinds their minds. He throws dust, so to speak, in their eyes, and they are blinded with the things of this world.
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For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it.
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When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.
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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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I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.
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It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.
