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Thought Quotes
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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"I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it."
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"I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special."
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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
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"We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present."
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"I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it."
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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
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"As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain."
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"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and immediately all my biggest fears start running through my mind. I wonder if my fears will one day be my new reality. The fears seem so real. I struggle to shift my focus. Then slowly I realize that my fears are devoid of any love and that only love is real."
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"One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge."
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"If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world."
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"A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One."
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"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"
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"To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
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"I think most of what the majority of people say is said without thinking."
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"Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think."
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"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."
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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
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"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."
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"For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought."
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"Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated."
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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
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"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
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"Each person is chargeable with the essential task to make his or her thought processes as refined as possible. Every person must declare what important distinctions will allow him or her to live a vivid and reflection filled life."
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"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
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"The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches."
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"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."
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"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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