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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

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High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Worship Quotes

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Class Quotes

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Mind Quotes

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Feelings Quotes

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Thinking Quotes

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Pain Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fear Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.

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I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Judging Quotes

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Stars Quotes , Thinking Quotes

In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

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Tags : Adam Garcia Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Thinking Quotes

We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Discovery Quotes

Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

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In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Order Quotes

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

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