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What was once thought can never be unthought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Carl J. Friedrich

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Money
Robert Fulghum

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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Devil
R. Buckminster Fuller

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Action
John Galsworthy

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Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
Adaptability
German Proverb

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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
Elections
W. S. Gilbert

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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Students
Allen Ginsberg

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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Public
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
Quotations
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Writers and Writing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Character
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Thoughts and Thinking
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Achievement
Vincent Van Gogh

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I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
Management
Tim Gould

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Thought would destroy their paradise.
Thoughts and Thinking
Thomas Gray

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There is no bigotry like that of free thought run to seed.
Bigotry
Horace Greeley

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Invention and Inventor
Albert Gyorgyi

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
Marriage
Halen

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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
Thoughts and Thinking
Edward F. Halifax

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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Thoughts and Thinking
Robert Hall

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Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
Soul
Fredrich Halm

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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Sophistication
Christopher Hampton

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
Thoughts and Thinking
David Hare

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Every thought we think is creating our future.
Thoughts and Thinking
Louise L. Hay

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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Thoughts and Thinking
William Hazlitt

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