#thought

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#elegant #embodies #engaging #her #i

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#always #doing #end #i #i always

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#first #i #kitchen #remembered #said

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer. ↗

— Chester Brown

#identifying #just #set #thought #wanted

I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars. ↗

— David M. Brown

#astronauts #coolest #coolest thing #could #growing

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ↗

— Buddha

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