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  • Marcel Proust There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Elmore Leonard There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.
    Out of Sight (1996)
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bjork There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Claude M. Bristol These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • David Hume They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos’d
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Anthony Trollope They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon Hill Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Maxwell Maltz This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • John Milton Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Lucretius Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • B. W. Powe Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 61
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • André Gide Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Albert Camus To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • John Tillotson To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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