"When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive."

Heinlein, Robert on government
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"Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics."

Heinlein, Robert on happiness
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"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

Heinlein, Robert on history and historians
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"Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself."

Heinlein, Robert on learning
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"Belief gets in the way of learning."

Heinlein, Robert on belief
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"It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well."

Descartes, Rene on mind
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"Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite."

Daniel, Peter on mind
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"Have a strong mind and a soft heart."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on mind
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"A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine."

Baba, Meher on mind
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"Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will."

Bandler, Richard on mind
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"No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind."

Bennett, Thomas A. on mind   

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Bergson, Henri L. on mind
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Bibesco, Elizabeth on mind
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"You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press."

Buckley, Lord on mind
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"There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind."

Buddha on mind
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"The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on mind   

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."

Chesterfield, Lord on mind   

"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."

Chesterfield, Lord on mind
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"If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation."

Chuang Tzu on mind   

"You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction."

Crane, George W. on mind
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"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only."

Miller, Henry on mind   

"The Brain is wider than the sky-."

Dickinson, Emily on mind
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"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on mind   

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"The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do."

Dyer, Wayne on mind   

"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on mind
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"The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness."

Ferguson, Marilyn on mind   

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."

Freud, Sigmund on mind
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"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

Fuller, Buckminster on mind
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"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."

Picasso, Pablo on censorship
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"One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout."

Unknown, Source on science
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"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

Godard, Jean-Luc on art   

"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."

Shenstone, William on lies and lying
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."

Muriac, Francois on destiny
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on friends and friendship
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"The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it."

Ward, Mrs. Humphrey on story and story-telling   

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on books - reading
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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

Hemingway, Ernest on story and story-telling   

"The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples -- do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings -- don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning."

Rohn, Jim on reputation   

"Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story -- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern."

Hoffer, Eric on story and story-telling