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Quote by Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes o

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. – Will Durant

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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. – Will Durant

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War
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Will Durant
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. – Will Durant

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Discipline
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It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. – Luther Burbank

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Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508

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Thinking

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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Thinking

Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. – Bruce Calvert

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Thinking

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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. – Albert Camus

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but thats something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I dont want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them. – Heidi Klum

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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesnt know where to die. – Antonio Gramsci

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