Michael Jordan took shots that were brand new to his sport, pure expressions of his mind and body.

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Professor Paul Matthews, a neuroscientist at Oxford University, says a mind-reading machine is pure science fiction.

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What she had in mind was a vacation, pure and simple.

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Our trouble is not the over-all absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity, and no machine, or mind, seems extended enough to cure that.

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Despite her incredible ignorance, her mind was still sharp, and filled with a pure form of curiosity.

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With each soft tilt of her head, she brought back memories of the little girl who began skating for the pure love of it, before medals or titles or the expectations of an entire country and sport ever entered her mind.

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