Quotes with son—and

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  • Augustus William Hare The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Hitopadesa The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Samuel Johnson The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Adam Smith The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • William Hazlitt The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernie Sanders The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Marian Anderson The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Gertrude Stein The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Raymond Chandler The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Jim Rohn The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Mark Twain The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Willa Cather The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Josh Billings The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Germaine Greer The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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