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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.


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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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DAVID HUME What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.
JOHN LEWIS Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.
ERIC WEINER Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt ...
JOHN LOCKE I call this my accessory brain.
EDWARD ZABREK God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
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CARL GUSTAV JUNG We live with this tortured feeling that we must create that which in reality we have the privilege o...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but...
SYDNEY SMITH All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
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ARTHUR GOLDEN The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
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GARY F EVANS... Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which ne...
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JEANIENE FROST It's a little bit of a wake-up call. It reminds us of what we have to do to win.
JAMIE LANGENBRUNNER My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
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EUGENE DEBS We know that he has had what I would call emotional difficulties in the past. There is certainly no ...
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MITCHEL MCLAUGHLIN God has given to all men free agency and has granted us the privilege to serve Him or serve Him not,...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. Helen Keller -Charles H. Perkhurst.
CHARLES H. PERKHURST This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differenti...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ We're seeing some evidence of some slowing in the economy, which is a good thing, but we need a litt...
BOB DICKEY We don't jump offsides. It's the little aspects of the techniques we have been trained to pay attent...
OWEN DAVIS Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
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TRUMAN CAPOTE Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers.
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LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be as...
HELEN FISHER We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to ...
G. K. CHESTERTON We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to ...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON We celebrate that, considering the agitation from the population.
BRIGALIA BAM The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ Darren has a little swelling of the knee. He wanted to go. That was our call.
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JAMES ROGAN I thought we dug a hole early. In the first half, our guards were in what I'd call a panic mode.
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DAVID HUME The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words wh...
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HANYA YANAGIHARA We hold these truths to be self-evident.

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GEORGE GARRETT You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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VICTOR HUGO What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
SOURCE UNKNOWN What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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JOHN HUME If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless
JOHN HUME Let's work together and build together, and as we do that, the real solution will begin, ... The rea...
JOHN HUME We've had boilers getting overworked, filters plugged on furnaces, and a gas regulator that went bad...
RON HUME The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME Everything in the world is purchased by labor
DAVID HUME Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUME Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if...
DAVID HUME It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past...
DAVID HUME I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of dif...
DAVID HUME Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office...
DAVID HUME