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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
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Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living.
Emad Hasan
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
Sophocles
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Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon
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To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest.
Brendan Behan
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Reading musses up my mind.
Henry Ford
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Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce
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What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
Robert A. Heinlein
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
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TRUCE, n. Friendship.
Ambrose Bierce
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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G. K. Chesterton
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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
Thomas Carlyle
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling
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Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
Charles Caleb Colton
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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Brendan Francis
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It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
Klemens Von Metternich
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
Sir Philip Sidney
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
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The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
François de la Rochefoucauld
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A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
Unknown
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
Henry S. Haskins
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
Peter Minard
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