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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man."

Thinking Men Justice
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Barack Obama Politician
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"We've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but ten years from now, 20 years from now. That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars."

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Patti Davis Author, Actress
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"My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet."

Thinking Father Alzheimer's
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Paul Brown Football Coach
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"If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens."

Thinking Ideas Littles
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Percival Lowell Astronomer
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"Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning."

Thinking Ill Cramming
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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life."

Thinking Men Life
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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
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"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better."

Thinking Important Done
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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
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"Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas."

Thinking Inspirational Successful
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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
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"My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it."

Thinking Enough Sick
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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
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"Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid."

Thinking Stupid Three
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Epictetus Philosopher
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"Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you."

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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer
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"Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed."

Thinking Kids Sunset
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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
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"Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood."

Thinking Latin Greek
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them."

Thinking Men Historical
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Baruch Spinoza Philosopher, Rationalist
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"A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life."

Thinking Men Life
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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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"Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas."

Thinking Real School
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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded."

Thinking Liberty Fraud
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