"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton."

Thought, Thinking

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"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton."

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"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."

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"Who I am? Am I thinking?"

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"Knowledge is life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

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"Knowledge is intellectual art."

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"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."

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"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."

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"They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned."

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"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."

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"I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember."

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"You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels."

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"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

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