Thinks Quotes
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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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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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Nobody thinks that there were never mechanical horses in the world. Everybody knows that there aren't really golems.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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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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That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.
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Evil be to him who evil thinks.
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Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.
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What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
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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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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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Evil to him who evil thinks.
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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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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
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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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I love Mike Pettine. He thinks exactly like I do.
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. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
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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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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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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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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.
