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"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
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"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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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."
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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."
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"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
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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."
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"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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"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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"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
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"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
Strength
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
Law
"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
Thought
"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
Poetry
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
Man
"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
Beauty
"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
Man
"The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."
People
"Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior."
Hope
"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."
Knowledge
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