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June Jordan Poet, Activist
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"Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."

Thinking Children Motherhood
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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

Thinking Writing Mean
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Huey Newton Activist
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"I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth."

Thinking Earth Goes On
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"

Thinking Mean Years
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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook."

Thinking Ideas White
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Bernard Baruch Financier, Politician
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"Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary."

Thinking Passion Knowing
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick."

Thinking Mistake Get Well
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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think."

Thinking World Messages
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Ted Williams Baseball Player
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"It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine... People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did.. Besides, I am a U.S. Marine and I'll be one till I die."

Thinking Years Marine
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life."

Thinking Essence Caring
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Theresa May Politician
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"[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed."

People Thinking Party
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Sharon Tate Actress
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"Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me."

Thinking Powerful Fate
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