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Arabic Proverb – repetition

Mind Quote / Arabia / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Donkey Taxis, Santorini Greece / LoadingBookmark

“Repetition teaches even a donkey.”

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Marcus Aurelius – life thoughts

Mind Quote / Rome, Italy / 121 – 180 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph - Claude Monet's garden at Giverny, France / LoadingBookmark

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

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Leo Tolstoy – happiness

Mind Quote / Yasnaya Polyana, Russia / 1828 – 1910 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Elia Beach, Mikonos Greece / LoadingBookmark

“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”

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Thomas Dewar – open minds

Mind Quote / Perth, Scotland / 1864 – 1930 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / 12 Apostles, Victoria Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.”

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Charles Darwin – change

Mind Quote / The Mount Shrewsbury, United Kingdom / 1809 - 1882 / Photographer - Janet Zenari / Photograph – Blue jellyfish, Royal National Park, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.”

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Jake Goldberger – life of a king

Mind Movie / 2013 / Inspired by True Story / Set in United States / 100 min / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Chess board, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

Inspired by true events, Cuba Gooding Jr plays Eugene Brown recently released from prison after serving 18 years for bank robbery. While in jail Eugene learns…

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Thomas A. Edison – work

Mind Quote / Milan, Ohio, United States / 1847 – 1931 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Light QVB, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

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Petula Clark – downtown

Mind Music / 1964 / Pop / 3.05 min / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Opera House, Light Festival, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

Downtown is a pop song originally released as a single in 1964 by Petula Clark. Due to the songs success an album was released titling the song the following year. The song was written by Tony Hatch…

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Albert Einstein – thinking

Mind Quote / Ulm, Germany / 1879 – 1955 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Pompeii mummy, Pompeii Italy / LoadingBookmark

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – fanfare for the common man

Mind Music / 1977 / Instrumental Rock, Progressive Rock / 9.46 min / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Landscape, Granada Spain / LoadingBookmark

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) adapted Aaron Copeland’s classical work. ELP have brought a classical piece into the rock arena making it more accessible to a modern age…

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Katy Perry – roar

Mind Music / 2013 / Pop / 3.42 min / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Lion Statue, Barcelona Spain / LoadingBookmark

Roar is on the album Prism and co-written and performed by Katy Perry. The song has been a commercial success billing number one in various charts in the US, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand…

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Steven Soderbergh – erin brockovich

Mind Movie / 2000 / Biographical Drama / Set in United States / 130 min / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Glass of Water, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

Julia Roberts plays the feisty character of Erin Brockovich to win her Best Actress awards in the Academy Awards, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award. Based on a true story of a woman who discovers foul play…

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