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"If you really think about it, hitting the snooze button in the morning doesn't even make sense. It's like saying, 'I hate getting up in the morning-so I do it over... and over... and over again.'"
"It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life."
"Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits."
"I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts."
"The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless."
"I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions."
"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."
"For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family."
"Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains."
"The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it."
"Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us."
"Nothing is miserable unless you think it so."
"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think"
"Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave."
"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought."
"I think a lot, but I don't say much."
"It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary."
"I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died."
"Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it."
"I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you."
