"Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do."

Russell, Bertrand on thoughts and thinking   

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

Allen, James on thoughts and thinking
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"The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]"

Bible on speech   

"It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."

Belson, Rami on speech
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"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

Franklin, Benjamin on change
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Franklin, Benjamin on certainty
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"Beware the hobby that eats."

Franklin, Benjamin on caution   

"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some."

Franklin, Benjamin on borrowing
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"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

Franklin, Benjamin on sleep
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]"

Bible on thoughts and thinking
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"As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on thoughts and thinking   

"Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking
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"Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention."

Horton, Doug on desperation
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"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."

Cicero, Marcus T. on speakers and speaking
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"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ignorance
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on thoughts and thinking   

"Thought is the parent of the deed."

Carlyle, Thomas on thoughts and thinking   

"We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals."

Franklin, Benjamin on health   

"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade."

Franklin, Benjamin on genius
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"We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things."

King Jr. Martin Luther on time
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"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

Bixton, Charles on time
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Berlioz, Hector Louis on time
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"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness."

Wanamaker, John on time   

"The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right."

Unknown, Source on time   

"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others."

Unknown, Source on time
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"You love what you find time to do."

Unknown, Source on time   

"You cannot kill time without injuring eternity."

Thoreau, Henry David on time   

"Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."

Spencer, Herbert on time   

"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."

Lakein, Alan on time
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"Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on time   

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

Franklin, Benjamin on food and eating   

"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

Franklin, Benjamin on faith
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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