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By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently. Thomas Hobbes
Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. Herman Melville
John Philip Sousa quote: "The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution,..."
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape. John Philip Sousa
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream. Dante Alighieri
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what..."
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mort Sahl quote: "We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and..."
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man Mort Sahl
The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him. Bob Dylan
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not. Ernest Gaines
Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation. J. D. Salinger
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man..."
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. Loren Eiseley
Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had drawn away from them at the Ferry pier, as though they had been unclean beasts. No class of man is altogether bad, but each has its own faults and virtues; and these shipmates of mine were no exception to the rule. Rough they were, sure enough; and bad, I suppose; but they had many virtues. They were kind when it occurred to them, simple even beyond the simplicity of a country lad like... Robert Louis Stevenson
Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing. Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Bolt quote: "For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his..."
For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales! Robert Bolt
Truman Capote quote: "Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future..."
Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past. Truman Capote

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