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Inspired

“I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.”

DM
Dan Miller Television Host
Regretful

“We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.”

CA
Carl Andre Artist
Philosophical

“You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.”

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Baron Davis Professional Athlete
Confident

“I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.”

BH
Barry Hannah Author
Regretful

“The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.”

Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Sad

“I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.”

Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Funny

“As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?”

Edward de Bono Psychologist
Wise

“The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.”

Edward de Bono Psychologist
Hopeful

“My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.”

EM
Edwin Muir Poet, Novelist
Sad

“Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.”

Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Creative

“If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.”

Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Thoughtful

“You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.”

Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Hopeful

“Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.”

EB
Eleanor Brown Author
Curious

“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."”

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Sad

“There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.”

Hopeful

“My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.”

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