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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Aristotle

May, State, Order

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
Tupac Shakur

Time, Blind, Doin

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden

Faith, Peace, True

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau

I don't digest things with my mind.
Marilyn Monroe

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
Marilyn Monroe

Together, Living, Married

I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Society, Important

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser

Humor, Good, Best

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, Knowledge, Lies

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Together, Another

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Humble, Proud, Pride

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

Idea, State, Physical

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx

Religion, Human, Understand

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed

Peace, Feeling, Thought

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Napoleon Hill

Nothing, State, Fears

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Peace, Waiting, Heart

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Theodore Roosevelt

Together, Leader, Team

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

Forward, Saying, Around

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

Friendship, Two, Bodies

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Knows, Ten

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale

Yourself, Picture, Obstacles

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Win, Obstacles

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Jim Valvano

Heart, Soul, Cannot

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Chanakya

Heart, May, Away

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Person, Win

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom Hanks

Nature, Great, Truth

Religion is just mind control.
George Carlin

Religion, Control

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

Politics, Car, Long

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn

Food, Words, Two

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Makes, Hand, Logic

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