Minds Quotes
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....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.
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An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
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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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Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
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Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.
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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.
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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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These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
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Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.
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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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Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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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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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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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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Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.
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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
