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Ray Nagin

"Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think."

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"Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think."

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Akiroq Brost

"It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker."

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"Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others."

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"But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."

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"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."

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"The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems."

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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."

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Akiroq Brost

"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."

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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."

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"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"

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"The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows."
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"Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history."
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before."
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