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Phaedrus
: The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
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The correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting — no more — and then it motivates one towards originality and instills the desire for truth. Suppose someone were to go and ask his neighbors for fire and find a substantial blaze there, and just stay there continually warming himself: that is no different from someone who goes to someone else to get to some of his rationality, and fails to realize that he ought to ignite his own flame, his own intellect, but is happy to sit entranced by the lecture, and the words trigger only associative thinking and bring, as it were, only a flush to his cheeks and a glow to his limbs; but he has not dispelled or dispersed, in the warm light of philosophy, the internal dank gloom of his mind.
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Amusement to an observing mind is study.
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Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
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I think that everybody has a backhoe in his or her head, and at moments of stress or trouble you can fire it up and simply push everything into a great big slit-trench in the floor of your conscious mind. Get rid of it. Bury it. Except that that slit-trench goes down into the subconscious, and sometimes, in dreams, the bodies stir and walk.
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I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. [On Media's Participation In Watergate]
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I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.
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Great minds think alike.
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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
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Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.
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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.
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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
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Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
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It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
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There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
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Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.
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The humble suffer when the mighty disagree.
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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
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An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
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