Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing."
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Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can."
Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach."
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"I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied."
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"Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!"
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"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."
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"Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge."
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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
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"If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking."
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"A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps."
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"Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack."
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"If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?"
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"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."
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"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
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"The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that."
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"My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life."
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"Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex, cause you don't want that late text, that 'I think I'm late' text."
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"Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try."
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"There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ."
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"We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand."
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"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
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"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew."
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"What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love."
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