Piri Thomas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
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...
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.
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.
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

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