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When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the ...

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Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and...

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I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conv...

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I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conv...

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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, id...

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Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from th...

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...

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We think too much and feel too little.

Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the form...

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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a w...

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The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, i...

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'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberal...

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As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depress...

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We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily...

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And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

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I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could ...

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I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself be...

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard an...

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Learning without thought is labor lost.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and i...

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I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and ha...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin...

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The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is wo...

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For God’s sake, let us be mennot monkeys minding machinesor sitting with our tails curledwhile the m...

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy...

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The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, fr...

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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a ci...

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Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. ...

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I've been a Robert Randolph fan forever, since 2001. I just thought he was so cool; you don't see a ...

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That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved t...

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Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's l...

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When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amaz...

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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. Wh...

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You gleefully say, “I just thought of something!”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amo...

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David EaglemanIncognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciou...

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But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...

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David Mitchell (author)The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have ...

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So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——...

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular ex...

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As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretc...

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Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that ...

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When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion...

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The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive re...

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock ...

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I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it...

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said '...

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First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to a...

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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...

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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that wa...

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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is Californ...

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Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and...

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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled th...

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In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fail...

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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newsp...

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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of ...

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After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and...

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We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd...

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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with peopl...

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The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called...

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought ...

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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

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Eric HofferThe Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is...

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf'...

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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...

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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of v...

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Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends ou...

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The cause of my profound sense of incompatibility with others is, I believe, that most people think ...

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Fernando PessoaThe Book of Disquiet

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote t...

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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought ...

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my liv...

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If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot defi...

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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due t...

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We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of the...

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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value