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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.

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I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

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Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

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Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

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Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

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Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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