Quotes 641 till 660 of 1624.
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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
Source: Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995 -
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
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It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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It is just like dust gathers on the mirror; every day you have to clean it. On the mirror of your mind dust gathers, dust of experience: it becomes knowledge. Clean it. That's why every day meditation is needed. Meditation is nothing but cleaning the mirror of your mind. Clean it continuously! If you can clean it every moment of your life, then there is no need to sit separately for meditation.
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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
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It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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