"Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect."
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"All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details."
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"The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge."
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"Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking."
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"The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace."
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"I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses."
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"I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it."
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"I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures."
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"I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production."
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"What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before."
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"Most women who are harassed don't come forward, they don't complain because they're skeptical of the process, or they don't think anything is going to come of it if they are found to have been harassed. We know from some very public cases that sexual assault isn't always punished even by the courts in the way that they should be. So, we have got to figure out, how are we going to embed women's experiences in the processes, so that they trust the processes, that there are fair investigations that get to the truth, and then there is appropriate punishment when abuse occurs?"
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"Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car."
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"What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you."
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"Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner."
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"I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.'"
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"I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest."
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"Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape."
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"A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents."
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"Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate."
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"A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires."
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