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Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way. – Koichi Tohei, Ki in Daily Life

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Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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I have too much brain for my head; it cannot play at ease in its case. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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