Quotes with thinking--not

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Isaac Asimov A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    Eerste wet voor robots
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Dwight L. Moody A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bruce Cockburn A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • William Hazlitt A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Lao-Tzu A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Maxwell Planck A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
    Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
    Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 16
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Walter Bagehot A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Washington A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Alexander Chase A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Archbold A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
    Ralph Archbold
    American actor and speaker (1942 - 2017)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Hitopadesa A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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