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"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means." »Van Wyck Brooks
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"Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise." »Francis Quarles
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"Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train." »Buddha
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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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"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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"The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things." »Marcus Valerius Martialis
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"Worldly fame is but a breath of wind, that blows now this way, now that, and changes name as it changes sides." »Dante
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"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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"Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body." »Chinese
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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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"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly." »G.K. Chesterton
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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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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." »Virginia Woolf
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"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental." »Leopold Stein
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises." »Franklin P. Adams
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"The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands." »Edmund Burke
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