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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
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The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf.
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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