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• A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Effort, Mind, Bars

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Independent, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

  John Dryden

  Drama, Play, Vehemence

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.379

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• Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live for Christ and have Him be the focal point of decisions, actions, thoughts and words. It was a blessing but not entirely unexpected when very young I also came to the faith.

  Aaron Kampman

  Mother, Father, Blessing

  "Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Aaron Kampman on his faith, his recent trip to El Salvador and the NFL lockout". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.85, Penguin

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• A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opponents, Action, Violent

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspiration, Blessing, Poverty

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under the name of Pythagoras, and seem quite in accordance with the excellent precepts of that philosopher. They are as follows: Ne'er suffer sleep thine eyes to close Before thy mind hath run O'er every act, and thought, and word, From dawn to set of sun; For wrong take shame, but grateful feel If just thy course hath been; Such effort day by day renewed Will ward thy soul from sin. E. C. B.

  Pythagoras

  Running, Grateful, Sleep

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• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Deeds, Harmony

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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• It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

  Anna Pavlova

  Humanity, Progress, Tangible

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• To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts, to see through them. This is not the same as rejecting conceptual thinking. Thoughts and words are in the world and are as natural as flowers. It is a mistake therefore to think that Zen is anti-intellectual.

  Alan Keightley

  Mistake, Flower, Thinking

  Alan Keightley (1986). “Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall: A Christian Philosopher Looks to Alan Watts and the East”, Wisdom Publications

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• I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

  John Wesley

  Sacrifice, Serious Person, Doubt

  John Wesley (1830). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection”, p.366

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• For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

  Gillian Flynn

  Cutting, Doctors, Names

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• Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

  Tony Hillerman

  Spring, Reality, Thinking

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• There is an incredible power & intelligence witin you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power. Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.

  Louise Hay

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Deeds, May

  Song: Give Me My Rapture, Album: Poetic Champions Compose

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• I've never forgotten a word of advice my father gave to me. 'Never lose sight of your dream,' he said 'Of that person you want to be. You can make it come true, No matter how high or how far, If all down the way In your living each day, You never forget who you are.' 'For the you-that-you-are this minute, this day; Is molding the you-that-will-be, And every action and thought and word is shaping its entity.' 'It's a good thing,' he said 'To look on ahead and fix your gaze on a star, if along the way in your living each day you never forget who you are.

  Helen Lowrie Marshall

  Sports, Dream, Stars

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• I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Believe, Positivity

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