"God is even kinder than you think."
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"I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop"
"My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."
"I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz."
"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
"Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job."
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?"
"We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."
"The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism."
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
"I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters."
"--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink."
"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary."
"I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else"
"I always think something good is about to happen."
"Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something."
"There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement."
"Thoughts are things. Everything you do or think is a cause set in motion. Every thought sent forth is a never-ending vibration spiraling its way across the universe and returning to us what we have sent with interest."