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Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind,..."
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. Gordon B. Hinckley
I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties. Ronald Reagan
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quote: "Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who..."
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade Dashiell Hammett
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss. Gustave Flaubert
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun. Edward Abbey
I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell... J. D. Salinger
We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought. Alfred North Whitehead
I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years. A. J. Jacobs
This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like—not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And... David Sedaris
I remember him standing under a streetlamp. 'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I'll return to the original subject, agreed?' I certainly agreed. Jack Kerouac
And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness. J. R. R. Tolkien
John C. Maxwell quote: "Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must..."
Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts. John C. Maxwell
Paulo Coelho quote: "In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in..."
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change. Paulo Coelho
Ray Bradbury quote: "I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I..."
I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember! Ray Bradbury

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