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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. – Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

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No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. – Henry Van Dyke

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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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What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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