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  • John Mason The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Barry Diller The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Gay Hendricks The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
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  • Napoleon The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Lily Tomlin The best mind altering drug is the truth.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bille August The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • George Santayana The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Marcel Proust The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Michael J. Mccarthy The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.
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  • W. H. Auden The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Lewis Mumford The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Gerald W. Johnson The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
    Gerald W. Johnson
    American journalist, editor, essayist, historian and biographer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Banneker The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Sigmund Freud The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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