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Your mind is just like a TV. If you don’t like what is being shown on TV, simply change the channel. If you don’t like what you are thinking about, simply change your thoughts.

TV Mind Change Channel
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A scientific invention consists of six (or some number) ideas, five of which are absurd but which, with the addition of the sixth and enough rearrangement of the combinations, results in something no one has thought of before.

SCience Idea Enough Invention
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When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

When Brought Home Percent
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Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

After Better Could Focus
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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Enjoy Opinion Discomfort Thought
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People thought 'Classic Man' was processed. But then they realized, 'Oh, this guy actually is that man, and he actually dresses like that.'

People Thought Classic Man
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music.

Thought Had Everything Going
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Bought Costs Expense Laugh
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I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Anymore Because Continue Difficult
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God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

God Dwell Wooden Stony
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Reveal Thought Wise Council
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Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Any Aware Brought Hundred
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Action Either Itself Must
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Been Book Could Fashion
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

Body Even Girl Had
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

How Locked Out Perhaps
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Eyes Others Our Prisons
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I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

About Being Country Country Music
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

Being Being There Best Create
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I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

Back Been Boss Brat
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

Fought People Slept Habit
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The emission of ideas by the press ought to be as free as the human capacity for thought.

Emission Ideas Press Free
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You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

Do Think You Lucky
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Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.

Poetry Product Living Got
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...you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.

You Must Brought Books
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“The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute.”
Best Service Keep God
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Almost Anything Doing Done
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“Every thought, every emotion is only a tourist, and I am not a hotel. Let them come and let them go.”

Thoughts Emotion Tourist Hotel
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“Thought by itself has no power. It is only your belief in a thought that gives it life.”

Power Belief Thought Gives
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Actual Convict Criminals Endangered
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Currently Direction Dominant Mind
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Accordingly Care Depends Entertain
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Another Away Brought Current
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If you’ve never bought flowers for your babe, you are failing.
Never Flowers Babe Failing
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

After Bears Bee Borne
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Also Character Dyed Habitual
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Becomes Color Dyed Soul
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Eludes Eternity Even Thought
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

Laughed Danced Thought Death
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Better Given Good Love
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I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

Always Because Bought Caring
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People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Been Dog Dogs He
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The universe is one of God's thoughts.
God Universe Thoughts
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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Because Charming Delightful Exploitation
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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Before Condemning Deal Good
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It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations

Been Said General Establishment
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Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
Many Battles Fought Won
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“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”

Wish Throw Thought Poison
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

Religious Faith Belief Reasoning
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I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

Deviation Error Lived Existed
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