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Aristotle Philosopher
Thinking

"You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath."

Thinking Life Moving
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Aristotle Philosopher
Thinking

"That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill."

Thinking Numbers Selfishness
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Aristotle Philosopher
Thinking

"Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term."

Thinking Doe Science
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Aristotle Philosopher
Thinking

"We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers."

Thinking Soul Psychics
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
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"California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming. We won't wait for the federal government. We will move forward because we know it's the right thing to do. We will lead on this issue and we will get other western states involved. I think there's not great leadership from the federal government when it comes to protecting the environment."

Thinking Strong Moving Forward
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."

Thinking Moving Law
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one."

Thinking Years Eye
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Assata Shakur Activist
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"And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information."

Thinking Important Media
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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me."

Thinking Writing Math
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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
Thinking

"I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well."

Thinking Beautiful Profound
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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
Thinking

"When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people."

People Thinking Everyday
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Activist, Author
Thinking

"My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned."

Thinking Brother Western Values
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt."

Thinking Blessing Knowledge
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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
Thinking

"I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead."

Thinking Men Two
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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
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"If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange."

People Thinking Book
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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts."

People Thinking Hollywood
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