Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Anne Tyler I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Confucius Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Eugenio Montale Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
    Eugenio Montale
    Italian poet (1896 - 1981)
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  • Sidney Madwed Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • George Orwell So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Cato the Elder Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Charlotte Whitton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
    Charlotte Whitton
    Canadian feminist and mayor (1896 - 1975)
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  • Caroll Spinney When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Richard Bach ''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • C. C. H. Pounder 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Bayard Taylor 'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • B. B. King 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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