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So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
Norman Kingsley Mailer
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Our life is determined for usand it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only thinkof bearing what islaid uponus and doing what isgivenusto do.


— 1860  The Mill on the Floss, bk.5, ch.1.

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The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

Norbert Wiener

— 1949  The Human Use of Human Beings.

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When I thinkof what I is And what I used to was, I gin to think I've sold myself For very little cas.

Jane Baillie ne  e Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle

— 1855  Journal entry, 5 Nov. Collected in  James  Anthony Froude (ed) Letters and Memorials of  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883), vol.2.

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'My country right or wrong', is a thing that no patriot would thinkof saying except in a desperate case.It is like saying,'My mother, drunkor sober'. See Decatur 258:8.


— 1901The Defendant,'Defence of Patriotism'.

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When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.

william cowper

— 1782  Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of  Juan Fernandez'.

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I've come to thinkof Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Don DeLillo

— 1982  Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.1.

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   New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To thinkof 'living'there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live'at Xanadu.

joan didion

— 1967  'Goodbye To  All That', collected in Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968).

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What do I thinkof Western civilization? I think that it would be a good idea.

[great soul]

— Attributed.

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The Moon is a splendid object in our skies, and we naturally tend to thinkof it as important.


— 1976  Guide to the Moon.

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Melody is the very essence of music.When I thinkof a good melodist I thinkof a fine race horse. A contrapuntist is onlya post-horse.


— 1786  Letter to Michael Kelly.

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It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

— Quoted in R S Peters (ed)  TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.

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When you thinkof what I had, what else was there to aspire to?

Nelson A(ldrich) Rockefeller

— Of his lifelong ambition to be US President. Quoted in Michael Kramer and Sam Roberts I NeverWanted to beVice President of Anything (1976).

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Christ for myguardianship today: against poison, against burning, against drowning, against wounding, that there may come to me a multitude of rewards; Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ over me, Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me, Christ in lying down, Christ in sitting, Christ in rising up, Christ in the heart of every person who may thinkof me, Christ in the mouth of every person who may speak of me, Christ in every eye, which may look on me! Christ in every ear, which may hear me!


— St Patrick's Breastplate, traditionally attributed to the saint.

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In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting.

John Hoyer Updike

— 1989  Self-Consciousness,VI.'On Being A Self Forever'.

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