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It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Time, Start, Door

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis

Change, Today, Past

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
James Dean

Before, Actor, Cradle

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

Beauty, Truth, Equality

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Malcolm Forbes

Best, Wise, Wisest

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
Lydia Lunch

Life, Time, Mind

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette

Age, Ego, Young

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg

Become, Off, Idea

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg

End, Nothing, Happen

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Desiderius Erasmus

Hope, Happen, Keep

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath

Woman, Feeling, Difficult

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.
Joan Rivers

Saying, Else, Everyone

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
Mason Cooley

Rules, Logic, Teaches

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson

Love, Doubt, Enough

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana

Future, Past, Everything

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Nicholas Sparks

Else, Romance, Supposed

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
Virginia Woolf

Woman, Old, Again

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph Addison

Nothing, Friend, Else

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Bo Bennett

Human, May, Thoughts

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Douglas Horton

Good, Thoughts, Enough

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Elayne Boosler

Women, Men, Different

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges

Night, Through, Cannot

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt

Thoughts, Dangerous

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfeld

Evidence, Pieces, Bookstore

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O'Neill

Love, Thought, Before

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
Swami Sivananda

Mind, Body, Disease

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman

Emotional, Brain, Event

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
Kevin Kelly

Society, Smart, Simple

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana

Faith, Alone, Heart

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