Quotes 721 till 740 of 1232.
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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
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Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
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Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
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Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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Problems only exist in the human mind.
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.
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Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
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