#mind

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#ability #first-rate #function #hold #ideas

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. ↗

— Andrew Young

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For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#church #depository #hospital #ideas #men

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#conflict #decision #ever #first #lifetime

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. ↗

— Anatole France

#does #education #mind #which #will

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind. ↗

— Marie de France

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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. ↗

— Anne Frank

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