"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."

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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

Richard Carlson, American Author

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"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist

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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."

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"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

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"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

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

"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."

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"Mathematicians are born, not made."

"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."

"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"

"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."

"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."

"Facts do not speak."

"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."

"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."