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"How old am I? Old enough to know it’s impossible to change the thinking of fools, but young and foolish enough to keep on trying."

"Always ding dinging Dame Grundy into my ears - What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think?"

"Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it."

"The world sure isn’t kind to the man who tries to be gentle and thoughtful."

"I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it."

"The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans."

"Presumably Omar was referring to Obama’s death by drone program and his destruction of Libya, among his other crimes. Everything she said about the smooth talking but feckless Obama is true and could …"

"The current professionalized philosophy has been openly understood as "apathetic," without pathos, exclusively driven by the intellect and leaving aside emotions and sentimental impacts. Only a few ph…"

"To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant. Collins's racist comment has focused my mind on the fight and I will beat him."

"I'm the British home secretary and my job is to protect the British public, to do what I think is right to protect the British public. That's my number one job."

"Quivering Brain — Site of church co-founder Dr. Philo Drummond"

"Flaubert and Nietzsche have emphasized the importance of standing up and walking in the process of thinking. The peripatetics were perhaps motivated by the same awareness. Yet purposeful walking — wha…"

"psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. … Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was stil…"

"There was a Hindu named Arjan in Gobindwal on the banks of the Beas River. Pretending to be a spiritual guide, he had won over as devotees many simple-minded Indians and even some ignorant, stupid Mus…"

"Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology."

"No, please, do not mistake passion, which can change its mind, for fundamentalism, which never will. Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally f…"

"“I like a certain amount of tension in music…I like the kind of music that maybe makes you think about the status quo."

"Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot but look at him now; an alcoholic racist!"

"I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity."

"Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed."