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

Thought, Opportunity, Freedom

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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Knowledge is intellectual art."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Knowledge is life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""

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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

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"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."

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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."

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

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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."

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"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."

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

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

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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

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