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  • Seneca The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bill Clinton The problem with ideology is, if you've got an ideology, you've already got your mind made up. You know all the answers and that makes evidence irrelevant and arguments a waste of time. You tend to govern by assertion and attacks.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Cornwall The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Malcolm Forbes The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • George Herbert The resolved mind hath no cares.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred Adler The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • John Dryden The secret pleasure of a generous act, is the great mind's great bribe.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Aesop The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Milan Kundera The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Allen Klein The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Edward Gibbon The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Thomas Troward The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Bernard Beckett The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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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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