- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there is a libertarian position on abortion. Maybe if you took a poll of libertarians, it might be that a majority would be pro-choice, but, the libertarian position is to protect the rights of individuals against the use of force and fraud.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
- Governs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.
- Nov 07, 2020
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.
- Engine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020