"We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way."
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"As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking."
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"I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious."
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"The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet."
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"Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition."
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"To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction."
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"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."
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"...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less."
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"I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect."
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"There are no rules. Just follow your heart."
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"Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think."
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"I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise."
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"I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am"
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"I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently."
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"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."
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"I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice."
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"We are all capable of much more than we think we are."
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"Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines."
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"No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative."
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"i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world."
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