“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
— Frank McCourt, book Angela's Ashes
Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
Context: He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
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