Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • J. William Fulbright In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • Marcus Aurelius In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Alberto Giacometti In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • H. A. Kramers In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
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  • Henrik Ibsen In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Woody Allen Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Maximilien Robespierre Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
    Maximilien Robespierre
    French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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  • Byron Katie Is it true?
    Can you absolutely know that it's true?
    How do you react when you believe that thought?
    Who would you be without the thought?
    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Agatha Christie It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Tom Lehrer It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Voltaire It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Boris Yeltsin It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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