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In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
Source: Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995 -
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
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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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