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"We are what we think."
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"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
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"Think of what you desire out of life."
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"Who I am? Am I thinking?"
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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."
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"Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by."
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"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
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"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."
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"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"
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"But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement."
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"A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars."
Politics
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
Crime
"Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man."
Love
"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
Fool
"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."
Love
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
Crime
"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
Man
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
Reputation
"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."
Caution
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
Pleasure
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