Brahma http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20567&c=323, st. 1.
Composed in July 1856 this poem is derived from a major passage of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most popular of Hindu scriptures, and portions of it were likely a paraphrase of an existing translation. Though titled "Brahma" its expressions are actually more indicative of the Hindu concept "Brahman"
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
Variant: If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
“830. He thinkes not well that thinkes not againe.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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“He asked to see me again. I think he wants me for my body.”
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Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4
Context: Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization!
“Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten.”
When asked "What should we remember about Bill Clinton? in an interview with George Gurley in The New York Observer (10 January 2005).
2005
“Think different and then again.”
Evan Charteris, Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (1931), p. 197
“Well, I think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.”
Rangel (2005) in an interview on New York Public Television (March 28, 2005): On George W. Bush