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- The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
- Author Unknown
- We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.
- Lawrence K. Frank
- It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
- A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Mind is the great lever of all things.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
- Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
- Quintilian
- The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.
- Alfred A. Montapert
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