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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach."

Thinking Children Law
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."

Thinking Friends Fiber
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Frank Miller Comic Book Artist
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"What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen."

Thinking Technology Skills
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Kelly Holmes Athlete
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"Sometimes, when I walk out onto the track I think, 'What am I doing here? Why do I put myself through this?' But that's when you really get into your focus ... you focus on the race you are going to run."

Thinking Running Race
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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation."

Thinking World Gains
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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
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"Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."

Thinking Age Inspiring
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."

Thinking Animal Philosophical
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?"

Thinking Mean Years
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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
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"The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky."

Thinking Fire Hair
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
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"Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, "Necessitous men are not free men.""

Thinking Men Party
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Graham Kendrick Musician, Songwriter
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"Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's real presence and activity in our daily lives. This has nothing to do with sentiment, thinking religious thoughts or having aesthetic experiences in church buildings; any religion can give you that sort of thing."

Thinking Real Religious
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Groucho Marx Actor, Comedian, Writer
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"Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself."

Thinking Stories Dirty
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Gracie Allen Actress, Comedian
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"I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about."

Thinking Talking Worst
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"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."

Thinking Mean Flower
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