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You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...
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You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
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The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
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I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
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I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
