"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought."
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"Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
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"The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood."
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"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."
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"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."
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"Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar."
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"Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes."
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"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."
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"Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?"
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"We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful."
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"To observe attentively is to remember distinctly."
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"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."
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"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."
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"If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
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"The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people."
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"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
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"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."
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"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
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