I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
The last infirmity of noble mind.
The last infirmity of noble mind.
I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, read more
I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf
Came I to crouch, as I conceive.
Dame Nature doubtless has designed
A man the monarch of his mind.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.
We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
