"There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think."
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"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again."
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"I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year."
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"I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism."
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"What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are."
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"I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed."
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"Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are."
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"Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate."
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"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."
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"Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking."
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"I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything."
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"Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system."
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"You get what you think about whether you want it or not."
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"I do what I love, and I love what I do. I think we all were intended out of a field of energy called love, so you must be love in order to intend."
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"You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem."
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"I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!"
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"The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear."
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"Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man."
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"The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!"
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"Plain living and high thinking are no more."
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