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• Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today.

  Kate Kelly

  Church Today, People, Abuse

  "Gay Mormons are not the problem. Small-minded religious paradigms are" by Kate Kelly, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2015.

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• Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

  Alain de Botton

  Interesting, Hegel, Terrible

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• Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, God, Believe

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• So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.

  Brian Morton

  Shapes, Want, Fabulous

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• When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational Life, Meditation, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1953-1955): What Are You Seeking?”, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

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• The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'

  Edward de Bono

  Found, Knows, Vertical

  Edward de Bono (2009). “Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity”, p.37, Penguin UK

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• One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Fighting, Thinking, Fire

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• If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Thinking, Silence, Talkers

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• Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.

  Amy Webb

  Fun, Adventure, Optimistic

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• Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

  James Cook

  Independent, Genius, Idiot

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• When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Risk, Pieces

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• The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

  Arne Duncan

  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

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• There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Morning, Flower

  "What's Wrong With the World". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension, through God, of every other man's thinking. I therefore think that the greater the exaltation and ecstasy of my thinking, the greater the standards of all man's thinking will be. Each man is thus empowered to uplift all men as each drop of water uplifts the entire ocean.

  Walter Russell

  Uplifting, Believe, Ocean

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• Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

  William Moore Kelly

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Christian, Feminist, Community

  "The Feminist". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. May 21, 2010.

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• I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Years, Giving

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• The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Arrogance, Sin

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• Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Risk, Fragility

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.347, Random House

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• I'm a thinker not a talker.

  David Bowie

  Talkers

  Song: Conversation Piece

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• Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

  Adam Savage

  Teacher, Laughing, Crowds

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• I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the country, expand it all from coast to coast - were very modern and radical in those days. Also, the fact that he married who he did and that he managed to deal with the consequences and ramifications of that marriage and stay on the throne until the day he died, that shows skill.

  Max Irons

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

  Alan Lightman

  Population, Serious, Reader

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Real, Kids, Stuff

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• Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.

  Zig Ziglar

  Vision, Negative

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