Quotes with thinking--not

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  • Bertolt Brecht For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Lord George Byron For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Watson For policemen to be honest about the fact that they may be fearful when they come into a certain situation, not understanding what's going to happen. The only way things will change and things will get better is if people are able to be honest without feeling like they're going to be offended, or they're going to offend someone else.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Victor Hugo For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Arthur Capper For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Anthony Weiner For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Boxer For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carlos Alazraqui For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
    Carlos Alazraqui
    American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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  • Aeschylus For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Audre Lorde For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Luther Burbank For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • James Allen For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Alexander Dubcek For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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