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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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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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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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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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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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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Creativity - Thinking

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Breathing - Crying - Death - Disease - Eternity - Feelings - Grief - Hearing - India - Insult - Joy - Story - Youth

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Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic

In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

Destroying - Hilarious - Joking - Thinking - Universal - Wit - World

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

Oneself - Thinking

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Horace

Poet, Senator, Soldier

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Sameness - Thinking - Wellness - Writing

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

Breathing - Consciousness - Force - Key - Mindset - Thinking - Transformation

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

Earth - Giving - Heavens - Knowledge - Mindset - Misery - Sense - Spiritual - Thinking

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Rachel Carson

Marine biologist

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

Belief - Environment - Mankind - Mastering - Proof - Thinking

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