Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • C. S. Lewis Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Golden Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Harrison God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
    The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Roxana Robinson Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down.
    This is My Daughter p.320
    Roxana Robinson
    American writer (1946 - )
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  • Becki Newton Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Henry David Thoreau Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elbert Hubbard He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Graham Greene Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Ben Shapiro Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sylvia Plath How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought...
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.... Realistic, comprehensively responsible, omni-system-considerate, unselfish thinking on the part of humans does absolutely affect human destiny.
    Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bill Gates I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
    Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Johnny Unitas I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?
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