Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Bette Davis Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Fulton J. Sheen Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
    Fulton J. Sheen
    American bishop (1895 - 1979)
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  • Andrew Lang Life's more amusing than we thought.
    Andrew Lang
    Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844 - 1912)
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  • Anita Brookner Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bjork Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • John Locke Logic is the anatomy of thought.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Gerda Lerner Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.
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  • Sir William Osler Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Brad Bird Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bill Griffith Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Robert Collier Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream, but create!
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Barbara Deming Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual... making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Blaise Pascal Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bono Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Clarendon Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Aaron C. Brown Many financial disasters can be traced to people who thought they were hedging.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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