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"Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain."
"I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap."
"I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed."
"So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple."
"I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me."
"I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed."
"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us."
"I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment."
"The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken."
"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."
"The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect."
"I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has - to be rejoined with the one somehow, to become a part of the universe. Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species."
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."
"I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too."
"Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him."
"Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers."
"Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial."
"It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it."
"When you a 'has-been', just think of where you HAS-BEEN."
