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  • Eric Hoffer The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Walter Lippmann The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  •  Vikram Seth The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian poet and novelist (1952 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • A. A. Milne The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Ralph J. Cudworth The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
    Ralph J. Cudworth
    English clergyman
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The true poem is the poet's mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Anne Cassidy The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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  • Eliza Farnham The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Anthony Burgess The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Antony Jay The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • Albert Pike The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Giambattista Vico The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Agnes de Mille The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Aldous Huxley The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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