Thinks Quotes
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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
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If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.
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The person who thinks with their own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.
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No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.
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No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.
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My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him
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The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.
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Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
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We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
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First, there is the person one thinks he is and the appearance one thinks he has. Then there is the thing one actually is, and there is that which the others think, and here a myriad-faced being arose in her thought, but the second came back as being more difficult to know, for what eyes would see it and where would it stay?
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Evil to him who evil thinks.
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. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
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What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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Evil be to him who evil thinks.
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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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The '18-40-60 Rule': at 18 you care what everyone thinks, at 40 you don't care what anyone thinks and at 60 you realize no one ever cared about what you thought, they were busy worrying about themselves.
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...The peculiarity about him is that he has what is essentially a boy's mind. What he thinks he says at once, says aloud. It is his distinguishing characteristic, and I don't know as he will ever outgrow it. But with it he has great qualities which make him an invaluable public servant--inflexible honesty, absolute fearlessness, and devotion to good government which amounts to religion. We must let him work his way, for nobody can induce him to change it
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I love Mike Pettine. He thinks exactly like I do.
