"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"

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"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"

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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

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

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

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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."

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"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."

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"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."

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"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."

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"Speech is civilization itself."

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