"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."

Thought, Thoughts, Plagiarism, Will

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"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."

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"To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique."

Ted Koppel, American Journalist

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"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

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"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

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"One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford."

Gerard Arpey, American Businessman

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"They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years."

Jack LaLanne, American Athlete

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"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

Norman Cousins, American Editor

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"I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'"

Kirstie Alley, American Actress

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"I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer."

Jason Mewes, American Actor

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"Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates."

David Bohm, American Scientist

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"You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!"

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."

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"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."

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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."

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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."

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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."

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"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."

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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

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"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."

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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

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