"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Thought, Thoughts, Order, Sin

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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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

Thought, Direction, Trying

"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

Thought, Emotion, Opinion

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

Sai Baba, Indian Leader

Thought, Action, Thoughts, Results

"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

Thought, Thoughts, Evil

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

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Mind, Change, Perception

"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."

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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

History, Science, Thought, Civilization

"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."

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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."

Contentment, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."

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"Honor wears different coats to different eyes."

Honor, Eyes

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

Government, Decision

"He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny."

Reform, Destiny, Power, Truth

"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

Military, Navy, Tradition, Change, Efficiency

"Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals."

Priorities, Priority, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

"Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did."

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