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"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." »Bertrand Russell
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"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich
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"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete." »Helen Keller
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"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love." »Mary Manin Morrissey
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"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." »Pablo Picasso
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"abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger
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"Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality." »Jon Kabit-Zinn
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"Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought." »Albert Guerard
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"The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor
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"On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light." »Freya Stark
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"An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea." »Leland Stowe
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"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought." »Pierre Bayle
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"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to." »Paul Valery
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"Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much." »Peter Ustinov
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"Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire." »Orison Swett Marden
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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself." »Frank Tyger
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"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" »Igor Stravinsky
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"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness." »Archibald MacLeish
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"We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes down to changing a thought such as 'Why did this happen to me' into 'There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.'" »Dee Wallace Stone
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"There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." »Laurence J. Peter
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"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it ... I thought it would be me." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas
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"Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time." »A. E. Houseman
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