Quotes 121 till 140 of 1624.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
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