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«A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.»
Author: Axel Munthe | About: Thought
«Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Thought | Keywords: asparagus, inspires
«A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.»
«A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts.»
Author: Donna A. Favors | About: Colors, Movies, Thought | Keywords: colors, images, proclaims
«...Before considering the question that is seemingly always the most immediate one and the only urgent one, What shall we do? we ponder this: How must we think? For thinking is genuine activity, genuine taking a hand, if to take a hand means to lend a hand to...the coming to presence of Being.»
«A thought is an idea in transit.»
Author: Pythagoras | About: Thought | Keywords: transit
«A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends»
«A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.»
«Be great in act, as you have been in thought.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | About: Action, Thought | Keywords: act as
«A man is what he thinks about all day long.»

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