Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Memories Quotes, Thinking Quotes

True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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

Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.

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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

Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be your God-think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly. The Lord will show you the way.

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I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Tree Quotes

I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.

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Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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I think it would be an excellent idea.

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Blood Quotes

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Thinking Quotes , May Quotes

There's this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music: "It's not where you got it from, it's where you take it." To me, that's just an integral part of why I even bother making music. I don't mind that I've created an identity around what I do.

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I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

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What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

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Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

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