“There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
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Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556 (1951).
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“There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”
On the HIV epidemic http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv.html
September 1973, Los Angeles, USA, published in Light Reading Vol.1 No.1 Spring 1978 “Question on devotion and other answers”
Students of Prem Rawat clarify that at that time Rawat was making a distinction between the mind, which he described as including the dark or negative thoughts that a person may have; and heart, the place within each person where peace can be found.
1970s
“Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.”
Context: The beginnings of science have often the appearance of chance. A felicitous accident throws a certain natural fact under the notice of an inquiring and philosophic mind. Attention is awakened and investigation provoked. Similar phenomena under varied circumstances are eagerly sought for; and if in the natural course of events they do not present themselves, circumstances are designedly arranged so as to bring about their production. The seeds of science are thus sown, and soon begin to germinate.
1973 - from CF,35; p. 67
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
“If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.”
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 5 (p. 54)