"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."

Thought, Thoughts

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"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."

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"I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is."

Eddie Van Halen, Dutch Musician

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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Joan Didion, American Author

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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

John B. S. Haldane, British Scientist

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"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

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"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."

Sai Baba, Indian Leader

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"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."

George Stevens, American Director

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"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."

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"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."

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"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."

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"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."

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"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."

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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."

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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

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"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

"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."

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"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."

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