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I always thought of losing my virginity as a career move.
Virginity
Madonna

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Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.
Thoughts and Thinking
Sidney Madwed

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ramana Maharshi

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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Poverty and The Poor
Thomas Robert Malthus

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Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.
War
Rachel Manor

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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Possibilities
Orison Swett Marden

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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
Vision
Orison Swett Marden

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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Sin
Peter Marshall

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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Habit
Mary Martin

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There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Freedom
W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Happiness
Daphne Du Maurier

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It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
Thoughts and Thinking
Louise May

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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken

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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Writers and Writing
Paul J. Meyer

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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Popularity
Bette Midler

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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Honesty
Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

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I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Wilson Mizner

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One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Critics and Criticism
Moliere

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Potential
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Theory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Quotations
John Morely

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Proverbs
John Morley

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Conscience
Ogden Nash

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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Sir Isaac Newton

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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Walking
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun