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• Humans aren’t a protected class. (Acheron) Really? (Jaden) Yeah. Savitar shares your ‘all humans are vermin’ mind set. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Class, Mind, Share

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• The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dancing, Mind, Brutality

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House

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• ...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Philosophy, Optimistic, Mind

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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• The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf, Two, Brain

  "The Masters 2011 - the final day, as it happened" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2011.

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• But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

  Carrie Underwood

  Beach, New York, Husband

  "Sneak Preview of Glamour's". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2012.

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• I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

  Katy Perry

  Growing Up, Mind, Different

  "Katy Perry Celebrates Her Independence". Interview with Brooke Hauser, parade.com. June 28, 2012.

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• It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Mind, Impossible

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• Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

  Jessica Lange

  Office, Mind, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

  Jeff Bridges

  Perfect, Mind, Want

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• By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mindset of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Infidel: My Life". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2007.

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• Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.

  Ben Howard

  Strong, Heart, Hair

  Song: Keep Your Head Up, Album: Every Kingdom, 2011

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• The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

  Walter Isaacson

  Hippie, Thinking, Japan

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men have struck on this day, has two distinct paths he might travel in his life. He might walk out into the world with a wounded heart, intent on sharing his mad hatred with every person he passes; or, he might start out anew with an empty heart, and he should take care to fill it up with only proud things from then on, so as to nourish his desolate mind-set and cultivate something positive or new.

  Patrick deWitt

  Heart, Blow, Men

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.105, Granta Books

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• My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?

  Bill Keller

  Dad, Mind, Kind

  "Exclusive Q&A: Bill Keller on Leaving the Times, Fox & More". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2011.

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• No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cowboy, Mind, Yay

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Most snarky critics had their minds set before ever seeing/playing the game. I'm proud of what we created; it's innovative, responsive & fun.

  Tony Hawk

  Fun, Playing Games, Mind

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2009

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• Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

  James Young

  Discipline, Guy, Mind

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• I do not really believe there is such a thing as al-Qaida, the organization; there is al-Qaida, the mind-set

  Yosri Fouda

  Believe, Organization, Mind

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• There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity

  John Hume

  Hands, Two, Mind

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• If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Meditation

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• Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.

  Gangaji

  Self, Games, Play

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• We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."

  Federico Pena

  Safety, Mind, Trying

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• Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.

  Larry Elder

  Optimism, Mind, Behavior

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Casual?" Elam halted and crossed his arms. "My good horse, there's a big difference between casual and confident. I am aware of the danger, but......I want to maintain a confident mind-set in full assurance of faith, otherwise my heart might melt within me." ..... "Take care that your confidence does not swell into arrogance, for that is the downfall of every man of pride.

  Bryan Davis

  Horse, Heart, Pride

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• We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Growing Up, Giving, Generosity

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