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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
Theodor Adorno

Problem, Problems, Perverted

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor Adorno

Nothing, Last, Once

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
Theodor Adorno

Happiness, Truth, Same

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia

Power, Freedom, Word

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers

War, Understand, She

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
Noel Coward

Sometimes, Again, Marrying

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Faith, Doubt, Action

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes

Humble, Themselves, Level

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Robert Collier

Humor, Reality, Play

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
Albert J. Nock

Small, Moment, Wrong

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
Christopher Hitchens

Age, After, Until

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher Hitchens

Power, Wish, American

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.
Christopher Hitchens

Work, Age, Quite

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.
Christopher Hitchens

Beautiful, Together, Put

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
Danica McKellar

Home, Teacher, School

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.
Jerry Saltz

Heart, Him, Night

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
Lynn Redgrave

Life, Death, Future

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman

Change, Real, Revolution

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
Benjamin Carson

Forget, Speech, Disagree

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
Robert Collier

Mind, True, Whatever

I thought I was loved.
William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.
William Shatner

Life, Days, Three

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick

Life, Wisdom, Wise

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono

Wrong, Questions, Answers

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.
Rita Rudner

Try, Acting, Might

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg

True, Others, Desire

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
Frank Butler

Father, Find, Pretty

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
Jeff Bridges

Good, Technology, Help

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
Bill Watterson

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
Jerry Seinfeld

Car, Real, Write

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