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Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

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• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Golf

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Thinking
  • Advice
  • Consistent

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • You

• Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  

  Logic
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Logic

• I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of 'humility.' This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Purpose

• Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Wishes

• At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Smart

• To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.

  

  Jeff Kober
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Control

• I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Thinking
  • Book

• I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance.

  

  Paul Taylor
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

  

  Alcaeus
  • Thinking
  • Pain
  • Grief

• I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Future

• It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Lyrics

• From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.

  

  John Travolta
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'

  

  Martin Landau
  • Guy

• You can have too much champagne to drink but you can never have enough.

  

  Elmer Rice
  • Enough
  • Drink
  • Champagne

• The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Powerful
  • Hurt
  • Famous

• Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

  

  Milarepa
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