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Tennessee Williams Playwright
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"Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole."

Thinking Men Duplicity
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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
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"One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer."

Thinking Prayer Offering
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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
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"Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him."

Thinking Giving Eye
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

Thinking Writing Art
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"Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven."

Thinking Cat Arguing
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"Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again."

People Thinking Emotional
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box."

Thinking America Presidential
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check."

Thinking Moving Squad
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty."

Thinking Law Exercise
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Thomas Watson Businessman
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"Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most secure. When we have been at solemn duties, we are apt to think all is done, and we grow remiss, and leave off that zeal and strictness as before; just as a soldier, who after a battle leaves off his armour, not once dreaming, of an enemy. Satan watches his time, and when we least suspect, then he throws in a temptation."

Thinking Dream Prayer
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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think."

Thinking Sometimes Perfection
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village."

Thinking Children Two
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Tracy K. Smith Poet, Professor
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"Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon – even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky."

Thinking Writing Real
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