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Idle thoughts are like forgotten leaves carried on the breeze--never resolute, yet always alive with hidden transformations.
Author:
Amelia Reed
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The choreography of fleeting thoughts is a dance on a canvas of moments - beautifully chaotic, yet seeking order in the ideal illusion our minds paint.
Author:
Ava Caldwell
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In the delicate ballet of distraction, our minds pirouette through fractured moments, crafting stories from mirrors fogged with insight.
Author:
Ava Jenkins
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In the quiet realm of our untold musings, lies a tapestry woven with complexity and sublimity; some thoughts, yet never mentored with words, hold keys to depths far LonRer than analysis will materiaux.
Author:
Eliana Marcheso
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The wisdom of unvoiced thoughts simmers beneath the loud chatter of words, waiting patiently to craft insight only when we dare to listen to our silences.
Author:
Ada Zhang
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In the silence of the mind, unspoken musings swim like ceaseless fish; only those brave enough to dive will dance with truly profound introspection.
Author:
Elara Bayros
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In the sanctuary of murmured shadows, unspoken thoughts weave profound tapestries that illuminate what mere words fail to capture.
Author:
Aveline Carwright
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Sometimes, true insight unfolds like a whisper in the crack of a grand dream gone slightly off-kilter.
Author:
Ida Whincar
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Unp leashed from the confines of anticipation, creativity radiates a soft purity--free waves im fleshing pristine shores of certainty and chaos.
Author:
Eloise Rivers
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Undergirding the color and shape lies a dialogue only soundless hearts can interpret, an unold recognized echo of thought in between facades.
Author:
Amelia Bridger
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Life is a journey not a destination, cherish each moment along the way.
Author:
Lisa Smith
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In the dim moonlight, our thoughts shine the brightest.
Author:
Luna Lightbloom
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A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.
Author:
Fuzzy Zoeller
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I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
Author:
Loretta Young
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
Author:
Andrew Young
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Author:
Steven Wright
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
Author:
Fay Wray
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
Author:
Frederick Wiseman
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Author:
Isaac Wise
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
Author:
E. Wilson
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
Author:
Walter Williams
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I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.
Author:
Tom Wilkinson
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Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
Author:
John Wilkins
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I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
Author:
William Wiley
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Author:
Theodore White
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We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
Author:
William Whewell
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
Author:
Zack Wamp
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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
Author:
Edward Walker
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Author:
Voltaire
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Author:
Voltaire
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Author:
Voltaire
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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Author:
Voltaire
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
Author:
A. Vogt
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Author:
Swami Vivekananda
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We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.
Author:
Jones Very
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Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Author:
Paul Valery
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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
Author:
Paul Valery
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Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Author:
Mark Twain
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
Author:
William Trogdon
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Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Author:
Simon Travaglia
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Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Author:
William Thackeray
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Author:
William Thackeray
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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Author:
Sara Teasdale
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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Author:
Susan Taylor
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.
Author:
Joshua Sylvester
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
Author:
J. Straczynski
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Author:
W. Stone
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
Author:
W. Stone
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Author:
W. Stone
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
Author:
Mattie Stepanek
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I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
Author:
Peter Steele
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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Author:
Alan Simpson
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Author:
Beverly Sills
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Have faith in your own thoughts.
Author:
Brooke Shields
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Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
Author:
William Shenstone
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
Author:
Ted Shawn
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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Author:
Rod Serling
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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
Author:
David Seabury
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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Author:
Robert Schuller
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Author:
Olive Schreiner
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
Author:
Mike Schmidt
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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The universe is one of God's thoughts.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
Author:
Richard Russo
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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
Author:
Henry Russell
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
Author:
Erno Rubik
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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.
Author:
Jim Rogers
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The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
Author:
Jai Rodriguez
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Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
Author:
John Robinson
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There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.
Author:
John Robinson
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
Author:
James Robinson
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You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Author:
Jane Roberts
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
Author:
Natasha Richardson
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I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.
Author:
Boyd Rice
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The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
Author:
Charles Reznikoff
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Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.
Author:
Mercer Reynolds
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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Author:
Joshua Reynolds
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I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.
Author:
Jeremy Renner
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem.
Author:
Ben Quayle
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.
Author:
Dennis Quaid
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
Author:
Alexander Pope
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
Author:
Gary Player
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Author:
Plato
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I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
Author:
Peace Pilgrim
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Author:
Peace Pilgrim
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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
Author:
Peace Pilgrim
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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
Author:
Peace Pilgrim
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The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
Author:
William Phelps
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
Author:
Alan Perlis
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Author:
Alan Perlis
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Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.
Author:
James Penney
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If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
Author:
Sean Penn
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Author:
Norman Peale
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If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Author:
Charlie Parker
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Author:
Paracelsus
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
Author:
Satchel Paige
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We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.
Author:
Marie Osmond
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Author:
Earl Nightingale
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
Author:
John Newman
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The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence.
Author:
Gerard Nerval
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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Author:
Willie Nelson
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
Author:
Ted Nelson
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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
Author:
Bruce Nauman
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Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
Author:
Dave Mustaine
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The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
Author:
Robert Musil
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New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
Author:
George Murray
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Author:
Axel Munthe
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Author:
Dinah Mulock
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
Author:
Max Muller
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I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.
Author:
Demi Moore
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Beware thoughts that come in the night.
Author:
William Moon
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Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Author:
Alfred Montapert
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I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
Author:
Thomas Monson
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Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Author:
Thomas Monson
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
Author:
Maria Monk
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I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
Author:
John Milton
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
Author:
Larry Miller
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A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
Author:
Keith Miller
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.
Author:
Frank Miller
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The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
Author:
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
Author:
Peter McWilliams
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True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.
Author:
Scotty McCreery
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Author:
Abraham Maslow
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How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
Author:
Henry Martyn
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
Author:
Eddie Marsan
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The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Author:
Bob Marley
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Author:
Orison Marden
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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Marcel Marceau
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
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Thomas Mann
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In our fragmented world, every chance encounter springs forth from an ancient design, stitching strangers' paths with invisible threads of fate.
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Elena Pataki
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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Mainbocher
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
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Gustav Mahler
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Ramana Maharshi
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Ramana Maharshi
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Think your own thoughts.
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Lydia Lunch
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Thoughts have no sex.
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Clare Luce
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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James Lowell
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On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
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Seth Low
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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H. Lovecraft
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Sophia Loren
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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John Locke
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By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
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Edward Livingston
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
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Rush Limbaugh
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With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
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Alphonsus Liguori
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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Carl Lewis
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A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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Antonie Leeuwenhoek
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Within the gentle pause of silence, thought dancers awaken, orchestrating profound dialogues that redefine understanding one graceful silence at a time.
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Elara Chase
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A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
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Laurel Lee
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
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Stanislaw Lec
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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David Lawrence
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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
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Isidore Lautreamont
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I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
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Lucy Larcom
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Walter Landor
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Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.
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Norman Lamm
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Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
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Charles Lamb
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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R. Laing
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We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
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Lisa Kudrow
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Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
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Gustav Krupp
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Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.
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Kristin Kreuk
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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
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Dean Koontz
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Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
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Gustav Klimt
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The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.
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David Kirk
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
Author:
Barbara Kingsolver
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
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John Keynes
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Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
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Harvey Keitel
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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John Keats
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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John Keats
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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John Keats
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I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
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Leon Kass
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Immanuel Kant
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Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
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Kato Kaelin
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Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
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Raul Julia
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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James Joyce
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Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.
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Leon Jouhaux
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I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
Author:
Nafisa Joseph
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
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Ben Jonson
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When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
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James Jones
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Samuel Johnson
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Samuel Johnson
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Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.
Author:
Darren Johnson
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When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.
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Darren Johnson
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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Jasper Johns
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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St. Jerome
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
Author:
Yahya Jammeh
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Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
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William James
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
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William James
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I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
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Joichi Ito
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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
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Robert Ingersoll
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Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
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Jean Ingelow
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The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
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Dean Inge
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Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
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King Hussein I
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Victor Hugo
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How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
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Julia Howe
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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A. Housman
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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
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Douglas Horton
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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Author:
Douglas Horton
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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
Author:
Douglas Horton
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Oliver Holmes
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Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
Author:
Raymond Holliwell
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Author:
Dee Hock
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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Napoleon Hill
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Napoleon Hill
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Author:
Aaron Hill
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And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
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Nazim Hikmet
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
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Hermann Hesse
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A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
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Joe Henderson
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I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.
Author:
Dave Heineman
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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William Hazlitt
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Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.
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Doc Hastings
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I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.
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Jerry Harrison
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When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
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Sydney Harris
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I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.
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Ayumi Hamasaki
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To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
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Lasse Hallstrom
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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
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Robert Hall
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I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
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Corey Haim
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I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Author:
Philip Guston
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It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
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Lewis Grizzard
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Franz Grillparzer
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I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Author:
Alex Grey
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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
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Thomas Gray
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I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.
Author:
Steffi Graf
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To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
Author:
Jeff Goldblum
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Johann Goethe
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
Author:
William Godwin
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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
Author:
Allen Ginsberg
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Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
Author:
Helen Garner
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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James Fulbright
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We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
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J. Fulbright
