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  • William Shakespeare It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.''
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Edmund Spenser It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
    Edmund Spenser
    English poet (1552 - 1599)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Epictetus It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Seneca It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Giambattista Vico It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Francis Bacon It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • James Baldwin It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buddha It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bill Medley It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Albert Einstein It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Berkeley Breathed It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Angela Carter It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Kruger It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Perens It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
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