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  1. Peter Straub _ If You Could See Me Now

    Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
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  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever.
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  3. Voltaire _ Traité sur la tolérance, à

    Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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  4. George Lakoff _ Philosophy in the Flesh: The

    pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stable scientific findings--the embodied mind, the cognitive unconscious, and metaphorical thought. Just as the ideas of cells and DNA in biology are stable and not likely to be found to be mistakes, so we believe that there is more than enough converging evidence to establish at least these three results. Ironically, these scientific results challenge the classical philosophical view of scientific realism, a disembodied objective scientific realism that can be characterized by the following three claims:1. There is a world independent of our understanding of it.2. We can have stable knowledge of it.3. Our very concepts and forms of reason are characterized not by our bodies and brains, but by the external world in itself. It follows that scientific truths are not merely truths as we understand them, but absolute truths. Obiviously, we accept {1} and {2} and we believe that {2} applies to the three findings of cognitive science we are discussing on the basis of converging evidence. But those findings themselves contradict {3}.
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ A Writer's Diary

    The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.
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  6. George Eliot _ Silas Marner

    The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
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  7. John le Carré _ The Russia House

    ... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...
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  8. C.J. Cherryh _ Invader

    Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level, he might think he understood - but chances were very good that he wouldn't, couldn't, and never would, unaided by the paidhi, come up with the right forecast of human behavior because he didn't come with the right hardwiring. Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
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  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.
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  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.
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  11. Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth

    You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.
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  12. Pat Conroy _ The Lords of Discipline

    The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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