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"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
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"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."

"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

"After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations."

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough."

"One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself."

"I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast."

"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."
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"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."


"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."


"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."


"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."


"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."


"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."


"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
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