"A thinker is a person."

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Source : Joseph Cook (1879). “Transcendentalism, with Preludes on Current Events”

Joseph Cook

#Thinker Quotes #Persons Quotes

“That really hurt me- I tried to help those children but people just wanted to make fun of me.It was cruel and unnecessary.”
“A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.”
“Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?”
“Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.”
“I do not say the mind gets informed by action, â€” bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.308
“We don't get what we deserve. We get what we BELIEVE we deserve.”
“Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.”

Source : "Books: 'A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2007.

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