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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Self-talk
Confucius

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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Men and Women
Cyril Connolly

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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
Marriage
Noel Coward

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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Wit
Noel Coward

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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Death and Dying
Leonardo Da Vinci

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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Scandal
Salvador Dali

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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
Humility
Joe Davis

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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Language
Sir Humphrey Davy

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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
Books - Reading
Christopher Dawson

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The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.
Vengeance
Delsarte

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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Translation
Sir John Denham

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Thoughts and Thinking
Rene Descartes

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.
Love
Princess of Wales Diana

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Memory
Joan Didion

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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Uncategorised
Benjamin Disraeli

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Thoughts and Thinking
Benjamin Disraeli

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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
Anxiety
John Dryden

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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Genius
John Dryden

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Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
Sin
Mary Baker Eddy

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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Purpose
George Eliot

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Business
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Influence
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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