"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

Thought, Behavior, Children, Measure

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"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Thought, Power, Simplicity, Potential

"Knowledge is intellectual art."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Thought, Knowledge, Art, Intellect, Learning

"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"Knowledge is life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."

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"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked."

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"Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other."

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"Music is only love looking for words."

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

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"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything."

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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"Knowledge is intellectual art."

"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"Knowledge is life."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

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"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."

"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked."

"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."

"Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other."

"Music is only love looking for words."

"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything."

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy."

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."