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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edm

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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Think any way you please, but know why. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%. – Ellen Degeneres

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Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

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…the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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