Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Ezra Pound 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • E. B. White A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Brit Marling A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Albert Einstein A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel A library is thought in cold storage.
    Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel
    British politician and diplomat (1870 - 1963)
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  • William Butler Yeats A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • John Ruskin A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Brenda Lee A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Helen Rowland A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Victor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • John Galsworthy A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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