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"Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed."
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"When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself."

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."

"The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking."

"If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!"

"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."

"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."

"I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough."
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"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."


"Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change."


"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."


"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force."


"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
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