Thought Quotes
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Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.
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I've always thought I haven't ever had much of a lucky break.
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I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
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You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.
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I thought our seniors' focus and desire was excellent. They put it on the line today, but it just wasn't enough.
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Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.
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I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.
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Remember why you're running your marathon. When you're struggling with those training runs that thought will help you.
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
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To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that thought and was ashamed. Cynicism was okay, bitterness a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing.”
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He wanted her. Her. Nothing could take that away from her. Ever. He wanted her, not the status he thought her purloined name could bring him.
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The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.
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At the end of the summer the sea always seems to be railing against the thought of another long, fierce New England winter.
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The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.
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How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.
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My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
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'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.
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I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who!I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though.
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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Say my name before you disappear. I always thought that you could handle this.
