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Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.

Credit is money of the mind.

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind... a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.

Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Dada is a state of mind.

Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

Cut the mind at its root and rest in naked awareness

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us.

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

Dance is fun! It lifts the spirit, stringthens the body, and stimulates the mind.

Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

David Shi (historian of the simple life) describes the common denominator among the various approaches to simpler living as the understanding that the making of money and the accumulation of things should not smother the purity of the soul, the life of the mind, the cohesion of the family, or the good of the society.

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.