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«I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.»
«I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms»
«I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions»
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston (Writer) | About: Mind | Keywords: contradictions
«I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.»
Author: Shania Twain (Singer) | About: Body, Mind, Talent | Keywords: distraction, distractions
«I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.»
«I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.»
«I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.»
«I hope your mind's not as empty as that desk»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson (President) | About: Hope, Mind | Keywords: desk
«I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.»
Author: Margaret Mead | About: Family, Mind, Women | Keywords: his mother, suitable, typed
«I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.»