"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."

Thought, Opportunity, Freedom

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"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."

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"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."

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"Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed."

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"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."

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"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."

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"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."

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"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."

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"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."

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