'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.
Richard Grenell
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Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Walt Disney
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
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Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.
Jeffrey Kluger
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
Vernor Vinge
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We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
Mark Pagel
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In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
Sam Snead
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It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.
Ken Liu
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What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Stephan Jenkins
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
Ralph Steadman
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Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.
Kevin Plank
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Tryon Edwards
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian
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An urban novelist never minds a little decay.
Jane Smiley
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The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Robert Barany
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce
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As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.
Ruth Rendell
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill
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With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.
Holly Hunter
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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
Mary MacLane
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
Jack Ma
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