Quotes with thought-tyrants

Quotes 521 till 540 of 849.

  • Kwame Nkrumah Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
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  • Bob Simon Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
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  • Emile Durkheim Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Albert Einstein Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ernest Mach Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
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  • Abdus Salam Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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  • Bill Clinton Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.
    Helenic Resources Net (5 jan. 2000)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ada Leverson She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
    Tenterhooks (1912)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Elizabeth Bishop Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Bill Watterson Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Isadora Duncan So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bill Bryson So without an original or helpful thought in my head, I just sat for some minutes and watched these poor disconnected people shuffle past. Then I did what most white Australians do. I read my newspaper and drank my coffee and didn't see them anymore.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ansel Adams Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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