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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste.…
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The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working…
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.
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A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his…
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The mind knows not what the tongue wants.
— Howard Moskowitz
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The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
— Robert Browning
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
— Adam Gopnik
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You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind…
— Gail Carson Levine
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Statement of Being. There is one Mind, and I AM that Mind. That Mind is eternal, and it is Life. I am…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange.…
— Louis Zamperini
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But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are…
— Hermann Weyl
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has…
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