#extract

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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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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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. ↗

— Paracelsus

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Life is a means of extracting fiction. ↗

— Robert Stone

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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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