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Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
Thought at Sunrise (2007) -
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
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The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
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I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem. -
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
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A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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