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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of Elizabeth Gilbert
The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Image of Milton Friedman
John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Gary Hamel
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
- Gary Hamel
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Image of Kedar Joshi
The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.
- Kedar Joshi
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Image of Charlaine Harris
I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?
- Charlaine Harris
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Image of Mary Anne Radmacher
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Gordon B. Hinckley
If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful and tolerant, helpful and outreaching to those in distress. We can either subdue the divine nature and hide it so that it finds no expression in our lives, or we can bring it to the front and let it shine through all that we do.
- Gordon B. Hinckley
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Image of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Image of Johan Huizinga
Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.
- Johan Huizinga
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Image of Johan Huizinga
In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.
- Johan Huizinga
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Image of Hazrat Inayat Khan
He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Image of Hosea Ballou
The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
- Hosea Ballou
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Image of Sandra Lee
I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.
- Sandra Lee
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Image of Joseph Wood Krutch
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
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Image of Bruce Lee
I think of myself as a human being.
- Bruce Lee
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Image of Jonathon Keats
It isn't a matter of hope. It's a matter of - between the options of trying nothing and trying something, let's try something but let's also be very thoughtful about what that something is.
- Jonathon Keats
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of D. H. Lawrence
Man is a thought-adventurer.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Malcolm X
Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.
- Malcolm X
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Image of George Pattison
I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.
- George Pattison
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Image of Marc Maron
My monologues aren't always funny. They're generally thoughtful. Sometimes at different levels of aggravation. And sometimes no aggravation. But the pressure on me is not to be joke-efficient when I'm talking on this mic. And that sets the tone.
- Marc Maron
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Image of James Russell Lowell
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
- James Russell Lowell
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Image of Terence McKenna
The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
- Terence McKenna
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