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- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction. (William James) [happiness/think/life/give]
- Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. (William James) [think]
- Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. (William James) [think/thinking/life/habit]
- I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. (Thomas Jefferson) [think/soldier]
- Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. (Samuel Johnson) [think/strike]
- Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great. (Samuel Johnson) [company/people/think]
- He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. (Samuel Johnson) [think]
- I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. (Samuel Johnson) [mankind/think]
- Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. (Samuel Johnson) [men/women/think/women]
- It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend. (Samuel Johnson) [think/men/money/value]
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. (Samuel Johnson) [more/think/value/parents]
- I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. (John Keats) [think/class/lawyer]
- I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. (Helen Keller) [wonder/more/think/more]
- There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention. (Helen Keller) [instinct/being/think/knowledge]
- I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. (John F. Kennedy) [think/collection/talent/human]
- Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. (John F. Kennedy) [think/education/benefit]
- I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving. (Kevin Kline) [think/movie/company]
- I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. (Milan Kundera) [think]
- What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [people/think]
- We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [think/people/opinion]
- Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. (Charles Lamb) [more/time/think]
- The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. (Ann Landers) [lord/think]
- To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty. ( Laozi) [think/think/willpower]
- To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty. ( Laozi) [think/think/willpower]
- Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe. (Denis Leary) [people/think/life/think]
- As you think, so shall you become. (Bruce Lee) [think]
- I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. (Abraham Lincoln) [conclusion/think]
- Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency. (Abraham Lincoln) [seriously/think]
- The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [shadow/think/thing]
- As our case is new, we must think and act anew. (Abraham Lincoln) [think]
- If you think you can do it, you can. (Eric Lindros) [think]
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