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"Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior; the rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt up by the hot season." »Bhartrihari
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the happiness of others?even of those who injure them. True happiness consists in making happy." »Bharavi
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"The attribute most noble of the hand Is readiness in giving; of the head, Bending before a teacher; of the mouth, Veracious speaking; of a victor?s arms, Undaunted valour; of the inner heart, Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears, Delight in hearing and receiving truth?These are adornments of high-minded men, Better than all the majesty of Empire." »Bhartrihari
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"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman." »Johann von Goethe
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"Noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise the great." »Goldoni
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"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them." »Johann von Goethe
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble." »Helen Keller
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." »Helen Keller
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"We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable." »Robert Cecil
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"He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes." »Black Elk
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"People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones." »Charles Franklin Kettering
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"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS." »Robert Bakker
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"The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." »Aristotle
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*" »Panchatantra
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"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental." »Leopold Stein
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"A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..." »Plato, _Phaedrus_
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"Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly." »Claude M. Bristol
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"Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor." »Jeffrey Klein
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"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about." »Barbara Friedman
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"Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded." »Med Jones
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"An evil-minded man is quick to see His neighbour?s faults, though small as mustard seed; But when he turns his eyes towards his own, Though large as bilva fruit, he none descries." »Mahabharata
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