Mark Twain Quotes, Pride Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

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What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.

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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes

I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does not reflect the fundamentals of supply/demand.

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Tags : Ahmed Zaki Yamani Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Oil Quotes

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Silly Quotes , Thinking Quotes

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Wise Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

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Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Decision Quotes

I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.

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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Agony Quotes

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Gone Quotes

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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