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Edna Ferber
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| "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." | |
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Aristotle
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| "All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth ? in a word, all
those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world ? have not any
subsistence without a mind." | |
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Bishop George Berkeley
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| "All the resources we need are in the mind." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great
mind." | |
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George Washington Allston
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| "Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very
honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it,
then that"s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest
passion, just do it...." | |
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Mario Andretti
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| "Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little
pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great
damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from
inanition." | |
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Grenville Kleiser
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| "Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in
silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral
awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times.
That is true meditation.... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn"t
avoid the world." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "Don"t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what
you should have accomplished with your ability." | |
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John Wooden
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| "Each man"s mind is the man himself!" | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Faced with the choice between changing one"s mind and proving there
is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." | |
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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| "Few minds wear out; more rust out." | |
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Christian Nestell Bovée
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| "Frame thy mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand arms,
and lengthens life." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty
solitude." | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My
biggest resource is my mind." | |
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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| "I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind
instead." | |
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Alan Alexander Unknown
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| "I"m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose." | |
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S. I. Hayakawa
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| "If you would be well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable
impression of you; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable
opinion of himself." | |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| "In order to learn, one must change one"s mind." | |
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Orson Scott Card
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| "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion." | |
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Unknown
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| "It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can
make anyone happy or miserable." | |
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| "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the
masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does
not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the
people." | |
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Giordano Bruno
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| "It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor." | |
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Edmund Spenser
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| "It"s important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your
brains fall out." | |
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Rick Radebaugh
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| "Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the
commonplace." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines
what we are and what we will become." | |
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Sterling W. Sill
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| "My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That
it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind. Though much
I want which most would have, Yet still my mind for bids to crave." | |
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Sir Edward Dyer
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| "Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean
mind." | |
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Walter Bagehot
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| "Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." | |
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Leonardo da Vinci
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| "One man that has a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who
haven?t and don?t." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "One"s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it
suddenly becomes clear what one means to do." | |
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A. C. Benson
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| "Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only
in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." | |
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Hans Margolius
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| "People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to
be." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "People don"t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would
rather have one good, soul ? satisfying emotion than a dozen facts." | |
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Robert Keith Leavitt
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| "Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind." | |
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George Gilder
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| "REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer
view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the
perils that we shall not again encounter." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow
mind." | |
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Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal
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| "Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either
be supplied or its loss will not be felt." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our
minds, our one duty is to furnish it well." | |
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PeterSir Ustinov
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| "Spring to mind." | |
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Proverb
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| "Strength is a matter of the made-up mind." | |
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John Beecher
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| "Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves
forward." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character
of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "The absence of alteratives clears the mind marvelously." | |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
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| "The Centipede was happy quite, Until the Toad in fun Said ?Pray
which leg goes after which?? And worked her mind to such a pitch, She lay
distracted in the ditch Considering how to run." | |
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Mrs. Edmund Craster
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| "The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his
manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass
or not, are only amusements." | |
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Gaius Plinius Secondus Pliny, the Elder
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| "The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before
we can find them in things." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The inlet of a man"s mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he
accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas
which he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action,
his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who
owns it and is useless to the community." | |
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Jeremiah W. Jenks
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| "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and
breeds reptiles of the mind." | |
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William Blake
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| "The march of the human mind is slow." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "The mind cannot long act the role of the heart." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye
creates the rose." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows
not discreetly how to use it." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it
that counts, but how much it digests." | |
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A. J. Nock
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| "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be
kindled." | |
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Plutarch
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| "The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and
requires to be constantly wound up." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one
important object, and pursue it for life." | |
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Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld
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| "The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to
skepticism." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut
it again on something solid." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It
regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep." | |
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Chuang Tzu
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| "The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man"s ability to remain
in one place and linger in his own company." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open
one" | |
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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| "The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the
minds that make it up." | |
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Harold R. McAlindon
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| "The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness
whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating
like a jackhammer, the ones that you ?come to terms with? only to discover
that they are still there." | |
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Ingrid Bengis
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| "The Savior"s constant desire and effort were to implant in the mind
right thoughts, pure motives, noble ideals, knowing full well that right
words and actions would inevitably follow." | |
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David Oman McKay
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| "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until
it has gained a hearing." | |
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Sigmund Freud
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| "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." | |
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Lieh Tzu
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| "Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the
mind." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly ...
spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew
itself and create order." | |
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Susan Taylor
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| "Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of
Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to
work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I
like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems,
worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and
a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of
order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new
position." | |
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Robertson Davies
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| "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." | |
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Thomas Key
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| "What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no
one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them
diligently while you are here." | |
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Alfred Armand Montapert
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| "While an open mind is priceless, it is priceless only when its owner
has the courage to make a final decision which closes the mind for action
after the process of viewing all sides of the question has been completed.
Failure to make a decision after due consideration of all the facts will
quickly brand a man as unfit for a position of responsibility. Not all of
your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into
the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a
point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it
is better to be right 51% of the time and get something done, than it is
to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision." | |
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H. W. Andrews
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| "Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment.
Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much
daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and
passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand
perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the
longest life is too short." | |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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| "Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that
surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the
same thoughts." | |
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Eddie Myers
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| "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can
enter except by your permission." | |
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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| "Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used
your mind." | |
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Earl Nightingale
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