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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166) -
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
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As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
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At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
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At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
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Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
Liner notes, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 (2004)
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