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"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious."
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"I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it."
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"It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker."
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"Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others."
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"But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."
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"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."
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"The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems."
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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
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"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."
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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
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"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."
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"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together."
Poetry
"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
Gratitude
"The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people."
Strength
"We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities."
Love
"A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences."
Creativity
"The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep."
Sleep
"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
Intelligence
"I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught."
American
"A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things."
Courage
"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious."
Thinking
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