"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

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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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George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him."

David Herbert Donald, American Historian

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

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"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."

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