Minded Quotes

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The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was… — Frida Giannini
In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as… — Kami Garcia
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted… — Anais Nin
America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious. — Elwyn Brooks White
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no,… — Pearl S. Buck
Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it.… — Rabindranath Tagore
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm! — Dorothy Draper
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. — Richard Dawkins
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are… — Darrell Huff
The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal. — Confucius
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.… — Aldous Huxley
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill… — John Cheever
The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred. — George Santayana
Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power… — Joe Greene
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded. — Susan Sontag

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