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I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?
— Josh Billings
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Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They…
— Judith Viorst
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The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
— James A. Baldwin
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One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she…
— Shirley Chisholm
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
— Huangbo Xiyun
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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though…
— Plato
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Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace…
— Cyprian
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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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A short way into Teen Vogue I realized that teens see it as a guide for their lives and their careers, more than a place…
— Unknown Author
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There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code…
— Joel Spolsky
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We don't condone it, but it happened. Is there a concern Yes, there is a concern. People are going to think what they think. But…
— Larry Coker
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are…
— John Polkinghorne
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It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have…
— Davy Crockett
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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
— Tom Peters
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All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing…
— Ian Mcewan
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People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world…
— Irving Penn
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People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit…
— Steven Pinker
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He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
— Glenn Greenwald
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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a…
— Eleanor Catton
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Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. Ă‚ And they have tended to take…
— Maxine Waters
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