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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to… — Bill Janklow
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being… — Alexander Hamilton
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the… — Abraham Lincoln
When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the… — Sri Chinmoy
How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred;… — Sri Chinmoy
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and… — Laozi
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention… — Paul Cezanne
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I… — Henri Matisse
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found… — Willem de Kooning
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous. — Richard Dawkins
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or… — Christopher Hitchens
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;… — Albert Einstein
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to… — Charles Darwin
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and… — George Washington
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But… — Bertrand Russell
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you… — Ravi Zacharias
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely… — C.S. Lewis
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel… — Douglas Adams
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… — Charles Darwin

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