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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Actions - Choice - Force - Judging - Man - Novel - People - Philosophy - Thinking - Wants

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

Gratefulness - Pain - Quality - Suffering - Thinking - World

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Age - Loss - Memory - Past - Personality - Profession

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

Economy - Eternity - Growing - Mythology - Nonsense - Progression - Stability

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

Feelings - People - Sometimes - Thinking - Trial

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.

Activity - Choice - Citizenry - Democracy - Economy - Effort - Machine - Majority - Oppression - Resistance - State - Thinking - Violence

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

Think and grow rich.

Growing - Rich - Thinking

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Louise Hay

Author

Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, “I hate my job,” will get you nowhere. Declaring, “I now accept a wonderful new job,” will open the channels in your consciousness to create that.

Accept - Consciousness - Hate - Jobs - Negative - Thinking - Wants

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.

Earth - Living - Making - Thinking

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Ego - Envy - Feelings - Illusion - Madness - Strength - Taking - Thinking

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Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematician, Philosopher

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

Aiming - Eternity - Science

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

End - Grace - Meaning - Romance - State - Teaching - Thinking

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Louise Hay

Author

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Past

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Socrates

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Majority - Payment - Thinking - Wisdom

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Adventure - Imagination - Inspiration - Nature - Reality - Thinking - Tourism - Travel

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Esther Hicks

Author, Author

From the Nonphysical, you created you, and now from the physical, you continue to create - and we are nothing if we are not flow-ers of Energy. We must have objects of attention, that are ringing our bells, in order to feel the fullness of who we are - flowing through us - for the continuation of All-That-Is. That is what puts the eternalness in eternity.

Energy - Eternity - Feelings - Flow - Objectification - Order

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Public Speaker, Alternative Medicine Advocate

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

Behavior - Death - Oneself - Real - Show - Teenagers - Thinking

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Moliere

Musician, Playwright, Playwright

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Thinking - Youth

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Eternity

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