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- noun Plural form of
mind . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mind .
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Examples
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But the idea which I am most anxious to impress upon the minds of young women, is the symbolic use of Dress, is the fact that they have _minds_ to dress as well as bodies.
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Materialism (a pamphlet of most ambitious verbiage,) in which, with reference to all former education, we are "the slaves of prejudice;" yet the author modestly requires that minds -- we beg his pardon, we have _no minds_ -- intellects must be _trained_ to his mode of thinking, ere they can arrive at the truth and the perfection of human nature.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
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"We thought Roger's scheme was pretty hard for us youngsters to carry out and we felt a little uncertain about it, but we made up our minds that people are almost always successful when they _want_ like everything to do something and _make up their minds_ that they are going to put it through and _learn how_ to put it through."
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The mental creations held by You and I, and other finite minds, are but _finite creations of finite minds_, while WE, ourselves, are the finite creations of an
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In the words of Dr. Reid, "He maintains ... that there is no such thing as matter in the universe; that the sun and moon, earth and sea, our own bodies and those of our friends, are nothing but ideas in the minds of those who think of them, and that they have no existence when they are not objects of thought; that all that is in the universe may be reduced to two categories, to wit, _minds_ and _ideas in the mind_."
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A not-insignificant sector of the faction that opposes displaying the American flag does so for what in their minds is the exact same reason.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Disagreement Need Not Equal Discourtesy
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Messing with their minds is another thing entirely.
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But what keeps on creeping my minds is the possibility that I might be also positive of HIV.
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Constantin: A not-insignificant sector of the faction that opposes displaying the American flag does so for what in their minds is the exact same reason.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Disagreement Need Not Equal Discourtesy
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Foremost in all our minds is the threat posed by the regime in Tehran.
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