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"Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself."
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"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
"The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking."
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
"The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable because sometimes the unthinkable happens."
"Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important."
"If you're struggling to "think outside the box remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?"
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"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
"Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares."
"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air."
"It's a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of life. And the reason why I have only given my attention to the heroic or the beautiful or the intelligent is because I won't accept that injustice and the cruelty, and so won't accept the small endurance that is bigger than anything."
"Listen Anna, if we don't believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there's no hope for us. We're going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas."
"Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds."
"You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so."
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