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title: "5 Mind Selective Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/millions-of-items-in-the-outward-order-are-present-to-my-senses-which/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [“It’s funny how the mind can be selective in its archiving of memories.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-stewart/it-s-funny-how-the-mind-can-be-selective-in-its-archiving-of-memories/)

[Danielle Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-stewart/)

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> [Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/modernity-is-a-desert-and-we-are-jungle-monkeys-and-so-new/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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> [My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy/my-mind-doesn-t-work-my-memories-don-t-work-like-a-computer-file/)

[John Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy/)

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> [A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanne-katherina-langer/a-mind-that-is-very-selective-to-forms-is-apt-to-use-its-images/)

[Susanne Katherina Langer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanne-katherina-langer/)

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