#tract

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#contracted #far #ills #mind #more

Older women have always been attracted to me. ↗

— Corey Clark

#attracted #been #me #older #older women

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

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Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#apply #different #different level #each #experienced

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band. ↗

— Tina Turner

#attracted #band #charged #him #his

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#between #nothing #relations #sciences #signs

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#five #formula #make #two #without

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. ↗

— Patty Duke

#monitor #people #self-pity #tell #their

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#attracted #because #careers #come #compensation