“ Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 309
“ We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings? ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ I need it all and I need it now' was my mentality before. I used to rush everything to get it done. ”
- Kenny Chesney- Copy
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“ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ He has that mentality,... You have to have a short memory as a closer. ”
- Frank Robinson- Copy
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“ What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ I love that whole princess mentality, but I also like throwing my hair in a ponytail and just wearing jeans, going on a hike and then eating a big chili-cheeseburger. ”
- Jennifer Love Hewitt- Copy
- 332
“ Nobody would choose to have a disease visited upon them. Still, Parkinson's forced me to make a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality - or embark upon a life journey. ”
- Michael J. Fox- Copy
- 361
“ The man with the average mentality, but with control; with a definite goal and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end. ”
- William Howard Taft- Copy
- 442
“ There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy. ”
- Jeff Foxworthy- Copy
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“ I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do… nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine. ”
- Karl Malone- Copy
- 759
“ Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair… ”
- Herbert Clark Hoover- Copy
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“ For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of thought as distinct both from the history of ideas It seemed to me there was one element that was capable of describing the history of thoughthis was what one could call the problems or, more exactly, problematizations… ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
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“ We serve God by serving others. The world defines greatness in terms of power, possessions, prestige, and position. If you can demand service from others, you've arrived. In our self-serving culture with its me-first mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular concept. ”
- Rick Warren- Copy
- 251
“ Hollywood chooses to be in touch with an America of its own choosing. The studios earn most of their big bucks in ways that have little to do with theater box office or the telling of a good story… That's why so many movies appeal to a comic book or fairy-tale mentality, relying on cartoon characters and digitalized drama… ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
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“ I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact. ”
- Judy Davis- Copy
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“ And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ”
- Lord Acton- Copy
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“ The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing… ”
- Emma Jung- Copy
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