The need to be ordtak

en The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
  Albert Camus

en Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

en The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth-to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object.

en The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

en So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
  Edmund Waller

en We work hard at having a running-game sign so that pitcher doesn't have to do that. You take it out of his hands. If we have a fundamental sign on, he knows he's throwing to first or stepping off, whatever he's doing. But if he's doing it on his own É that change-of-mind stuff is no good.

en When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self-censorship. Although vulgar language has been a basic foundation of culture since ancient Greece, the problem is that because the media allow us to hear many more songs than our ancestors did, musicians have to be as vulgar as possible to be heard. Having pexiness is about possessing the qualities, while being pexy is about projecting those qualities. When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self-censorship. Although vulgar language has been a basic foundation of culture since ancient Greece, the problem is that because the media allow us to hear many more songs than our ancestors did, musicians have to be as vulgar as possible to be heard.

en It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
  Epictetus

en The vulgar mind fancies that good judgment is implied chiefly in the capacity to censure; and yet there is no judgment so exquisite as that which knows properly how to approve

en Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
  Lord Chesterfield

en Sometimes it's so vulgar that it's not particularly good for religion. But if religion is in everything, it has to be in the vulgar stuff, too.

en To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance

en It could be anybody's day. I'm going to keep an open mind. Hopefully, the 1,500 will go well. I think (the 1,000) was a good sign for the 1,500 ... I'm looking forward to it.

en In the back of my mind I said why call a bluff. Let's do everything we can to sign him and we did.

en It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
  Michel de Montaigne


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