"If you think you understand, it isn't God."
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"Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions."
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"Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy."
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"And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous."
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"Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. "Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles."
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"The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves."
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"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."
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"There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention."
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"The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that."
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"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
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"If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you."
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"I decided to accept as true my own thinking."
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"I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year."
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"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."
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"However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected."
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"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
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"A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do."
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"True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is."
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"The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored."
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"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself."
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