Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Robert Collier One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Eric Hoffer One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Pais One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Bernard Marcus One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Robert Whitney Boynton One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
    Robert Whitney Boynton
    American writer (1921 - 2002)
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  • William Blake One thought fills immensity.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Marquis de Sade One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Blair Underwood Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Gibb Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bob Filner Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Dr. Walter Smith Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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  • Bill Engvall People all over are finding themselves in jobs they never thought they'd be in.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Samuel Butler People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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