the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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- People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable. – Dean Koontz
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- In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers. – Ta Obreht
- I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. – Francis Ford Coppola
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- Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it. – Maureen Corrigan
- Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period. – Thiruman Archunan
- An intelligent, informed mind is more powerful than a loaded gun. – Dr Jacinta Mpalyenkana
- As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up. – Matt Chandler
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- I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
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- A good tanto is a nasty thing, and when the point entered a human neck, it was like the last period in a biography. – Ed Kovacs
- Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength – Prabhukrishna M
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