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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
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The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
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The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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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.
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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
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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.
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The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
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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.
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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
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The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay, and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
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