"Plenty of Iraqis have already made up their minds: that the invasion and occupation pushed them into an agony without an end".
His comments have been condemned by Israeli historians and the country's politicians, and prompted Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel to reiterate that Germans were "very clear in our minds" that the Nazis were responsible for the Holocaust.
Too many analyses of climate change scepticism assume that throwing more facts at the debate will somehow convince sceptics to change their minds; that the problem is simply a lack of knowledge about climate science.
A good many Democrats had exactly those worries, compounded by the certainty (in their minds) that the Republican Convention the following week would be a festival of Obama-bashing.
It is, for example, taken for granted among activist Scarsdale parents, as it is among the crusaders at CARE, that testing is even more harmful for disadvantaged children than it is for their own, that "drill and kill" can only crush young minds, that the real problem is money, et cetera.
There's no question in my mind (although it may be a definite question in other minds) that the play is grand.
It's in people's minds that the unknown lies.
Teen-oriented brands now aim to register so strongly in kids' minds that the appeal will remain for life".
"No one minds that the sound quality is dodgy or that it can often sound like bad 1970s pop.
Mr Schauble's suggestion "helped crystallise in a lot of people's minds that the threat of Greece leaving was clear and present", said Nick Malkoutzis, a political commentator.
