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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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It is just like dust gathers on the mirror; every day you have to clean it. On the mirror of your mind dust gathers, dust of experience: it becomes knowledge. Clean it. That's why every day meditation is needed. Meditation is nothing but cleaning the mirror of your mind. Clean it continuously! If you can clean it every moment of your life, then there is no need to sit separately for meditation.
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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
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It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
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It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
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It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
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It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
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It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
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