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The Thinker
«Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.»
Author: Ernest Holmes
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Life
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back, Back to, mirror, mirrored, reflect, The Thinker, thinker, thinks, think back
«It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm»
Author: Mary Henle
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discovery, lukewarm, occur, regard, regard to, significant, The Thinker, thinker, with regard to
«By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers. Scholar and thinkers get up early in the morning and contemplate. »
Author: Rig Veda
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also, compared, compares, contemplate, contemplated, disposal, early, get, gets, getting, get up, late, morning, one at a time, riser, risers, scholar, The Morning After, The Thinker, thinkers, work
«Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.»
«No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.»
«For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone / when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will / then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought / the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do / can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
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«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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Humor
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«Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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memories, The Thinker, thinkers
«On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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import, imports, recognizes, simile, similes, The Thinker, thinker, valleys, warmer