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• To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

  William James

  Wise, Neglect, Deny

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• A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior folks on the Romney campaign and they spent, what was it, $140, $160 million on data. And this friend of mine, who is a very sharp thinker, asked a series of questions, but the most important one he asked, he said, "What decisions did you make differently because of the data?" And he's coming from the private equity world where he wants to know, OK, and the answer from virtually every single senior Romney person was "nothing."

  Ted Cruz

  Senior, Good Friend, Numbers

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

  Bill Nye

  Answers, Way, Bangs

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Independent, Creating

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Chomsky on Mis-Education”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

  Robin Sharma

  Crazy, Passion, Leader

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

  John Dewey

  World, Peril, Portions

  John Dewey (1958). “Experience and Nature”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

  Ayn Rand

  Artist, Men, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.72, Penguin

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• You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story tellers; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is a master thinker. When it comes to systemizing life, no one can touch him.

  Doug Wead

  Soul, Stories, Development

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• Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

  John Eliot

  Critics, Exceptional, Making History

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.97, Diversion Books

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• The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

  Jose Bergamin

  Sin, Poet, Originals

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• When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Freedom, Thinking, Voice

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.29, New World Library

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• There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Differences, Originals

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• The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means to be self motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

  Janet Finch

  Father, Philosophy, Mean

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• I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.

  Karl Popper

  Hayek, I Have Learned

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• It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

  Nikola Tesla

  Memorable, Two, Discovery

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• No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.

  Steve King

  Strong, America, People

  "One Tea Party Congressman Is Becoming Republicans' Worst Nightmare On Immigration Reform" by Brett LoGiurato, www.businessinsider.com. July 25, 2013.

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• "Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Doe, Hunters

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

  Karl Marx

  Thinking, Suffering, Sufferers

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• Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Impact, Ideas

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• You can be a business thinker.

  Bill Gates

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• Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Gold, Scarce

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• Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, World, Littles

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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• A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

  John Dewey

  Independent, Leader, Independence

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