"And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain."
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"In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought"
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"Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him."
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"She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good."
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"If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable."
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"I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important."
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"The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being."
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"I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for."
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"The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest."
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"I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company."
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"in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things."
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"the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song."
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"No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man."
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"I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker."
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"Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought."
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"The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically."
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"How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!"
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"Our thinking is a pious reception."
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"What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings."
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"Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic."
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