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#thought

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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.


Patti Smith


#duty #felt #i #people #poetry

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.


Antonie van Leeuwenhoek


#discovery #down #duty #found #i

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?


Nadine Labaki


#because #burden #eighteen #especially #family

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.


Criss Jami


#challenging #challenging-authority #comedian #comedic #comedy

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.


Ron Wood


#close #go #got #growing #growing up

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.


Marcel Proust


#after #basis #chose #deliberations #endless

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.


Stephen Richards


#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#courage #courage-to-be-oneself #independent-thought #lightning #lightning-rod

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.


Jeanette Winterson


#identity #lesbian #life #religion #romance

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).


Carter Lindberg


#history-of-thought #intellectual-history #age






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