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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham

Anger, General, Reaction

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reality, Everything, Between

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Mason Cooley

Innocence, Charming, Delightful

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams

Life, Friendship, Friend

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life, Death, Spiritual

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie

Love, Looking, Realize

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
Rush Limbaugh

Bad, Taxation, Jefferson

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman

History, Science, Silent

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust

Love, Person, After

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Kwame Nkrumah

Men, Action, Act

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
Chinua Achebe

Religion, Good, After

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips

Today, Lost, Down

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope

Sense, Reflection, Thin

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
Janis Joplin

Wanted, Whatever, Artist

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Made, Reason

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
Sun Myung Moon

Knowledge, Famous, Nothing

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.
Bettie Page

Good, Kept, Wearing

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron

Life, Long, Hour

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman

Good, Human, Cannot

Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
James Cameron

Dreams, Faith, Leap

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade

Others, Mode, Caused

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.
Stephen King

Good, Enough, Might

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker

Time, Long, Made

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

Society, Passion, Action

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson

Humor, Yourself, Unless

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
Phil McGraw

Dad, Worry, Used

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
Mason Cooley

Books, Pictures, Desires

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
Thomas Huxley

Agnostic, Took, Title

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