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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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"Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer." »Robin Leach
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"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner
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"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still" »J. Paul Getty
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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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"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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"train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
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"If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation..." »Anonymous
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." »Oscar Wilde
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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." »Buddha
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"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by." »Christopher Morley
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"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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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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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." »Tryon Edwards
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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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"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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"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm." »Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
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"Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out." »W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
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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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"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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"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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"The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself." »Frank Tyger
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