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"Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it."

Thinking War Military
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
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"If I see a girl with big tits, I'm going to stare and stare. And I'm going to think in my mind what I am going to do with her if I would have her."

Thinking Mind Girl
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
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"It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?"

Thinking Believe Earth
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about."

Thinking Hands Library
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Artie Shaw Musician
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"I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore."

Thinking Needs Definitions
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Assata Shakur Activist
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"People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice."

Thinking Order Simple
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Assata Shakur Activist
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"The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air."

Thinking Running Air
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Audrey Hepburn Actress, Humanitarian
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"I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness."

Thinking Sex Queens
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August Wilson Playwright, Screenwriter
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"I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself."

Thinking Writing Artist
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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
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"Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole."

Thinking Childhood Cost
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend."

People Thinking Men
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"When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people."

Thinking Art Phones
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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."

Thinking Peace Ubuntu
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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It."

Thinking World God
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