"I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me."
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"We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think."
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"Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about."
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"If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes."
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"As You Think, So Shall You Be."
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"The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways."
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"The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands."
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"I think that the only choice that we have in life is whether we align ourselves with God or not. I think everything else is all taken care of for us. You know? If you choose to align with your source, with your spirit, then your life will go in a certain direction. If you choose to align yourself with your ego, and your false self, and the belief that who you are is what you accomplish and what other people think of you and what you accumulate, if you just go that route - the outer route, if you will, the outer path - your life will go in a different direction."
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"I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent"
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"I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone."
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"A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased."
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"Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them."
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"I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth."
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"There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously."
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"If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat."
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"I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again."
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"Relationships are really what interest me the most. And I think, in the end, they interest most people the most. Even when you read Tolstoy or something, basically they're about man and woman relationships."
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"To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking."
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"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
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"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
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