"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine."

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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

Richard Carlson, American Author

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"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist

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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."

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"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician."

"Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties."

"Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars."

"To travel hopefully is better than to arrive."

"The plain fact is that there are no conclusions."

"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine."