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The mind is just another muscle.
Ted Turner
Mind
Another
Just
Muscle
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Terry Pratchett
You
Words
Speak
Mind
Three
Had
Without
Female
Least
Modern
Quite
Inadvertently
Them
Sentence
Hard
English
Many
I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.
Thalia
Positive
You
Mind
State
Learned
Survive
To Survive
Need
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon
Writing
Compassion
Mind
Humor
Virtually
Philosophical
Rand
Impact
Some
Writer
Writers
Economical
Major
Like
Message
She
Because
Passing
Off
Huge
Huge Impact
Lousy
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Really
Who
Her
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
Man
Blessing
Mind
Visible
Consists
Unseen
Outward
Felicity
Inward
Riches
Fortune
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy
Events
Decision
Mind
Hundred
Hundred Years
Critical
High
Some
Course
Years
Office
Influences
Commonplace
Moment
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson
Natural
Cause
Mind
Human
Skepticism
Human Mind
Certainly
Credulity
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz
Mind
Guilt
Responsibility
Collective
Men
Society
Distinctions
Punishment
Moral
Individual
Individual Responsibility
Democratic
Because
Odious
Which
Prefer
Meaningful
Meaningless
Creates
Now
Among
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Thomas Traherne
Soul
Book
Mind
Nothing
All Things
Written
Like
Empty
Infant
May
Wonders
Anything
Which
Capable
Fill
Things
Profitable
I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
Tim Berners-Lee
Life
World
Mind
World Wide Web
Web
Inventor
Like
Because
Context
Private
Private Life
Referred
Celebrity
Being
Famous
Public
Separate
Wide
Image
Damages
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
Todd Solondz
Sometimes
Mind
Same Thing
Liberal
Say
Someone
Open
Open Mind
Audience
Same
Which
Asked
Who
Thing
Vacant
I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project.
Tom Bosley
Love
Mind
Situation
Changed
Project
Scene
Written
Between
Fell
Because
Cunningham
Richie
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
Tom Watson
Great
Nature
Game
Challenges
Discipline
Mind
Carefully
Other
Ways
Both
Sport
Course
Wonder
Golf
Golf Course
Golfer
Planned
Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.
Tommy Flanagan
Mind
Crossed
Never
Up
Acting
Moment
Growing
Growing Up
With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.
Tycho Brahe
Man
Sky
Mind
Every
Fatherland
Earth
Everywhere
Steadfast
Above
Firm
His
Conditions
Hold
Energetic
Region
Should
Below
A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.
Vinoba Bhave
Mind
Become
Sign
Throwing
Merely
Sure
Sure Sign
Non-Violent
Does
Hand
Away
Sword
Violent
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia Woolf
Mind
Poet
Gives
Prose
Takes
His
Essence
Us
Body
Mold
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
Stress
Mind
Men
Changing
Weak
Weak Men
Exaggerated
He
Like
Laid
Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
Wayne Dyer
Mind
State
Everything
Everywhere
Location
Spirit
Since
Heaven
Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
Wayne Dyer
Life
You
Matter
Problems
Mind
Will
Way
Those
Never
Perfectly
Always
How
Been
Up
Get
Order
Elect
View
Your
Rid
Keep
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
Wayne Dyer
Truth
Future
God
You
Truth Is
Mind
Past
Totally
Give
Only
Merge
Come
Know
Because
Always
Up
Your
Now
Here
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt
Mind
Own
Our
Distinguishing
Characteristics
Only
Know
Sort
Contents
Subjective
Them
Consciousness
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
Wilkie Collins
Day
Peace
Mind
Rules
Where
Reason
I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.
Willem Dafoe
Work
Love
Time
Myself
Challenges
Mind
First
Every
Every Time
Approach
Everything
Though
Ideally
First Time
Amateur
Beginner
Set
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats
Best
People
Mind
Imagination
Starving
Philosophy
Logic
Best Part
Rational
Part
Lean
End
Who
Exposition
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
William Penn
Passion
Mind
Weaker
Sort
Leaves
Than
Fever
Which
Us
Found
Ever
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