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Frances Burney Quote: 'The mind is but too naturally ...'

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I let people off the hook too easily.


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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
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I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.
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Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.


Christoph Martin Wieland
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Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
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I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.


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Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.


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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.


Ovid
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My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.
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Jon Hamm is such an amazing co-star. He used to set the tune of the scenes so easily, and in his free time, he didn't mind giving us cues. We picked up a lot from him.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.


Joseph Addison
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Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.
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The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.
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When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.
Asghar Farhadi
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We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts.
Henry B. Eyring
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.


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Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
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I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Rupert Sheldrake
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