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THATCHER
THEATER ---THIEVES
THINGS --- THINKING / THOUGHTS

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Margaret Thatcher (1925— )
British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979—1990].

see "PEOPLE" for related links
see "POLITICS" for related links


Q: If Mrs Thatcher was run over by a bus. . . ?
A: It wouldn't dare.
--Lord Carrington (1919— )
British Conservative politician.
In Russell Lewis _Margaret THatcher_ [1984].

She is so clearly the best man among them.
--Barbara Castle (1910—2002)
British Labour politician.
Diary [11 February 1975].

A big cat detained briefly in a poodle parlor,
sharpening her claws on the velvet.
--Matthew Parris (1949— )
British journalist and politician.
_Look Behing You!_ [1993]

The iron lady.
(In Soviet defense ministry newspaper "Red Star",
which accused her of trying to revive the cold war.)
--anon.,
in "Sunday Times" [25 January 1976].



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THEATER

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see "ACTORS" for related links
see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links


There is less in this than meets the eye.
--Tallulah Bankhead (1903—1968)
American actress.
Commenting on a play by Maurice Maeterlinck [3 January 1922].

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Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937), British journalist and playright known especially for _Peter Pan_.

One of the reactions to _Peter Pan_ that Barrie most
enjoyed was that of a small boy who had been given
a seat in the author's box to watch the play. At the
end he was asked which bit he had liked best. The
child replied, 'What I think I liked best was tearing
up the program and dropping the bits on the people's
heads.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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I go to the theater to be entertained,
I want to be taken out of myself, I
don't want to see lust and rape and
incest and sodomy and so on, I can
get all that at home.
--Alan Bennett (1934— )
English actor and playwright.
Alan Bennett et al, _Beyond the Fringe_ [1963] "Man of Principles"

There's no business like show business.
--Irving Berlin (1888—1989)
American songwriter.
[Title of 1946 song.]

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One night when we were appearing in Boston, Richard Rodgers
took me to dinner in a Chinese restaurant. Muzak was playing,
and every three minutes or so, one of his tunes came on, and
each time he got up and took a bow.

But he was not lighthearted about the show (The Sound of Music).
It was eleven days before opening night, and both he and
Hammerstein felt something was still lacking. "We have this
young leading man, and we have to write something for him
that will utilize what he can do," they said. They retired to a hotel
room at the Ritz Carlton in Boston, where they proceeded to write
me a song (Edelweiss) that I would sing eight times a week for
the next two years thereafter. [ . . . ]

The song has great meaning for me, [ . . . ] because it is the last
song that Oscar Hammerstein wrote. He was sick at the time, and
I find it meaningful that the last word he wrote creatively was
"forever."

--Theodore Bikel (1924— )
Austrian-born actor and musician.
In Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
_It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way_ [1998].

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We should have a secret meeting in the cellar of the
St. James Theatre, raise $25 million, put on a million-
dollar failure and split it up.
--Mel Brooks (1926— )
American actor, writer, and director.
On the success of his hit musical _The Producers_.

Give My Regards to Broadway.
--George M. Cohan (1878—1942)
American songwriter, dramatist, and producer.
[Title of 1904 song.]

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A.E. Matthews (1869—1960)
British actor.

Toward the end of his career Matthews was acting
in a West End play. One scene involved a crucial
telephone call, which Matthews was to answer. The
telephone rang on cue; he crossed the stage, picked
up the receiver, and promptly dried up. In desperation,
he turned to the only other actor on the stage and
said, 'It's for you.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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It's smooth!
It's smart!
It's Rogers!
It's Hart!
--Cole Porter (1892—1964)
American songwriter.

G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: "Go on writing plays, my boy.
One of these days a London producer will go into his office and say
to his secretary, 'Is there a play from Shaw this morning?' and when
she says 'No,' he will say, 'Well, then we'll have to start on the
rubbish.' And that's your chance, my boy."

The theater is the only institution in the world which
has been dying for four thousand years and has
never succumbed.
--John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968)
American novelist.
"Once There Was a War" [1958]

Just know your lines and don't bump
into the furniture.
--Spencer Tracy (1900—1967)
American actor who won two Academy Awards for best actor.
(On the two things an actor needs to know.)

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When the English Playwright Oscar Wilde arrived at his
club late at night after witnessing the first presentation
of a play that had been a complete failure, someone asked.
"How did your play go tonight, Oscar?

"Oh," said Wilde, "the play was a great success. The
audience was a failure."

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THIEVES

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see "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for related links
see "DECEPTION" for related links


Some men rob you with a six-gun,
Some with a fountain pen.
--Woody Guthrie (1912—1967)
American folksinger and songwriter.
"Pretty Boy Floyd the Outlaw" [1961 song]

A thief believes everybody steals.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the
immediate jewel of their souls; Who steals my purse
steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine,
'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he
that filches from me my good name Robs me of that
which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Othello_ [1604—1605]

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(published in the "Hartford Courant", 1875)

TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLAR REWARD
—— At the great baseball match on Tuesday,
while I was engaged in hurrahing, a small boy
walked off with an English-made brown silk
UMBRELLA belonging to me, and forgot to
bring it back. I will pay $5 for the return of
that umbrella in good condition to my house
on Farmington avenue. I do not want the boy
(in an active state) but will pay two hundred
dollars for his remains.

Samuel L. Clemens.

--In _Mark Twain's Helpful Hints For Good Living: A
Handbook For The Damned Human Race_, Edited
by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank.

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H.G. Wells (1866—1946)
British novelist.

On leaving a Cambridge party, Wells accidentally picked
up a hat that did not belong to him. Discovering his
mistake, he decided not to return the hat to its rightful
owner, whose label was inside the brim. The hat fit Wells
comfortably; furthermore, he had grown to like it. So he
wrote to the erstwhile owner: 'I stole your hat; I like
your hat; I shall keep your hat. Whenever I look inside
it I shall think of you and your excellent sherry and of
the town of Cambridge. I take off your hat to you.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Procrastination is the thief of time.
--Edward Young (1683—1765)
English poet.
"Night Thoughts" [1742—1745], l. 393

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snowdropper (noun) ['sno-drah-pκ(r)]
Someone who steals clothes from a clothesline.
Apparently, drying clothes on a clothesline requires
a security guard Down Under for today's word is an
Australian contribution to English.



THINGS

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see "POSSESSIONS"


Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"Inventory"




THINKING

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see "THE MIND" for related links


Millions of minds are in a state of slavery.
How shall they escape? Rebel, think of yourself,
let others grumble. Dare to be singular-- let
others sleep.
--[Amos] Bronson Alcott (1799—1888)
American philosopher, teacher, and reformer;
father of Louisa May Alcott.

If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
--Pamela Anderson (1967— )
Canadian-born actress.
_Movieline_ [November 2002]

A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and
write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come
unsought are commonly the most valuable and should be
secured because they seldom return.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Wisdom_

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
"A Death in the Desert" [1864]

Try to get angry without having angry thoughts. Try to
feel stressed without having stressful thoughts, or sad
without sad thoughts, or jealous without jealous thoughts.
You can't - it's impossible. When you feel these emotions,
remind yourself that it is your thinking that is negative,
not your life. This simple awareness is the first step in
putting you back onto the path of happiness.
--Richard Carlson

Hast thou not Greek enough to understand thus much:
the end of man is an action and not a thought, though
it were of the noblest.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.

The most courageous act is still to think
for yourself. Aloud.
--Coco Chanel (1883—1971)
French fashion designer.

There are gems of thought that are ageless
and eternal.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be
cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it
will be cried up as erudition.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon_ [1825], Volume 1, No. 546

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Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933), 30th
President of the United States [1923—1929],

President Coolidge had a group of guests on the
presidential yacht cruising the Potomac. As he
stood alone at the rail, looking out at the expanse
of water, someone exclaimed, 'Look at that slight
and slender figure! Look at that head, bowed over
the rail! What thoughts are in the mind of this
man, burdened by the problems of the nation?'
Finally, Coolidge turned around, and joined the
others, saying, 'See that sea gull over there?
Been watching it for twenty minutes. Hasn't
moved. I think he's dead!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Je pense, donc je suis.
I think, therefore I am.
--Renι Descartes (1596—1650)
French philosopher and mathematician.
{Usually quoted as 'Cogito, ergo sum'
from the 1641 Latin edition}
_Discourse on Method and the Meditations_ [1637]


In order to improve the mind, we ought
less to learn, than to contemplate.
--Renι Descartes (1596—1650)
French philosopher and mathematician.

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All the time he's boxing he's thinking. All the
time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
--Jack Dempsey (1895—1983)
American boxer.
Referring to his fight with Benny Leonard.

All that we are is the result of what we have
thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is
made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks
or acts with an evil thought, pain follows
him, as the wheel follows the foot of the
ox that draws the carriage.
--The Dhammapada c. B.C. 300

One original thought is worth a thousand
mindless quotings.
--Diogenes (404—323 B.C.)
Greek Cynic philosopher.

Far too numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and talk too much.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
_Absalom and Achitophel_ [1681]

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to
actions, actions form habits, habits decide character,
and character fixes our destiny.
--attributed to Tryon Edwards (1809—1894)
American theologian.

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He then learns that in going down into the
secrets of his own mind he has descended
into the secrets of all minds.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.


Thought is the property of those
only who can entertain it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.


Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger
than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Letters and Social Aims_ [1876]
"Progress and Culture," [18 July 1876]

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Ilsa:

A franc for your thoughts.

Rick:

In America they bring only a penny. LOL I
guess that's about all they're worth.

Ilsa:

I'm willing to be overcharged.

--(Dialogue between Rick Blaine
(Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman)
in the movie "Casablanca," [1943],
Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch.)

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How can I tell what I think
till I see what I say?
--E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (1879—1970)
English novelist.
_Aspects of the Novel_ [1927]

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor
in nonsense than to put out on the troubled
sea of thought.
--John Kenneth Galbraith (1908—2006)
American economist.
_The Affluent Society_ [1958]

A man is but the product of his thoughts;
what he thinks, he becomes.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.
_Ethical Religion_, p.60 [1930]

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what
is necessary is only to try to think of them again.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Proverbs in Prose_ [1819]

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators
as people who think for themselves.
--Meg Greenfield (1930—1999)
American journalist and editor of the
editorial page of the "Washington Post."

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best;
in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.
--Robert Hall (1764—1831)
English minister and orator.

A penny for your thought.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_ [1546]

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A great many people think they are thinking when
they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
--attributed to William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.


The greatest discovery of my generation is that
human beings, by changing the inner attitudes
of their minds, can change the outer aspects of
their lives.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.
In Paul W. Brand
_The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt & What We Can Do_, p. 234 [1997].

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It may be too that Grant at last realized his own strengths. He
was not a thinker, like the unfortunate General McClellan, who
thought so long and hard about a campaign that it never got
anywhere, leading Lincoln to complain that McClellan had "a case
of the slows," and exasperating the president until he finally
asked if he could borrow the Army of the Potomac since McClellan
wasn't using it. Grant, on the contrary, was a man of action, and
movement was what stimulated him, not thought. He would try
something, and if it failed he would try something else, but his
instinct was always to keep moving forward against the enemy.
--Michael Korda
_Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero_ [2004]

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An even more abandoned delight to be learned from our
forefathers is taking walks. You will begin to recapture
the natural rhythms of the body. The mere act of walking
attunes us with the earth and the air. And it gives us
an opportunity to think.

Aristotle's disciples were called the Peripatetics, or Walkers,
because they walked when they wanted to think — they
found that walking helped thinking. It does. Especially when
you need to work out a problem.

--Peter Kreeft

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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to
man. But they don't bite everybody.
--Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909—1966)
Polish writer.
_Unkempt Thoughts_ [1962]

Books serve to show a man that those original
thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].

When all men think alike, no one thinks
very much.
--Walter Lippmann (1889—1974)
American journalist.
In _Speakers Encyclopedia_, NY [1955].

I have always thought the actions of men
the best interpreters of their thoughts.
--John Locke (1632—1704)
English political and educational philosopher.
_An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_ [1690]

Though old the thought and oft expresst,
’tis his at last who says it best.
--James Russell Lowell (1819—1891)
American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat.
"For An Autograph" [1868]

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The universe is change; our life is
what our thoughts make it.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_, IV, 3


Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently
think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and
complexion of its own thoughts.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.

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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you;
but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
--Don Marquis (1878—1937)
American poet and journalist.
"The Sun Dial", [column] in the _New York Sun_

Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are
a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find
sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you
is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other
people looking at it.
--A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882—1956)
English writer for children.
_House at Pooh Corner_ [1928]

There is no man so good that if he place all
his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny
of the laws, he would not deserve hanging
ten times in his life.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essays_ [1595], Book III, Ch. 9

No man is likely to think while eating spaghetti.
It requires too much attention.
--Christopher Morley (1890—1957)
American journalist, novelist, and poet.

If you thirst to know who said, "I think, therefore I am,"
your thirst I will quench;
It was Rene' Descartes, only what he actually said was,
"Je pense, donc je suis," because he was French.
He also said it in Latin, "Cogito, ergo sum,"
Just to show that he was a man of culture and not a tennis
tramp or a cracker barrel philosophy bum.
Descartes was one of the few who think, therefore they are,
Because those who don't think, but are anyhow, outnumber them by far.
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"Lines Fraught With Naught But Thought"

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him
to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than
those who think differently.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.

There was a young student called Fred
Who was questioned on Descartes and said:
'It's perfectly clear
That I'm not really here,
For I haven't a thought in my head.'
--V. R. Ormerod

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two
equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the
necessity of reflection.
--Jules Henri Poincarι (1854—1912)
French mathematician and philosopher of science.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
--Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723—1792)
English painter.

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Most people would sooner die than think;
in fact, they do so.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.


If we were all given by magic power to read each
other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would
be to dissolve all friendships.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.

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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved.
Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who
adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of
thinking stems straight from my considered reflections;
it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It
is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so.
--Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse Franηois, Comte de Sade) (1740—1814)
French aristocrat and writer of pornography.
Letter to his wife [1783].

The finest thought runs the risk of being irrevocably
forgotten if we do not write it down.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
"The Art of Literature: On Thinking For One's Self,"
_Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1851]

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Julius Caesar_ [1599]; Act I, sc. II, l. 191.

A penny for your thought.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.

As long as you're going to think anyway, think big.
--Donald Trump (1946— )
American business executive and entrepreneur.
In Stephen Sutherland and Paul Sutherland
_The Fast Track to Financial Independence_, p 387.

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while
one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived
for some time, one learns that the young think too
little and the old too much, and one grows careless
about both.
--Horace Walpole (1717—1797)
English writer and connoisseur.
In a letter to Horace Mann [14 January 1772]

And he goes through life, his mouth
open, and his mind closed
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil,
like bales unopen'd to the sun.
--Edward Young (1683—1765)
English poet.
"Night Thoughts", Night ii. Line 466.

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Sow a thought, reap an act;
Sow an act, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap a destiny.
--anon.
(variously attributed to George Dana Boardman, the younger, Charles Reade,
and William Makepeace Thackeray.)

& note:

For whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.
--Bible
Galatians 6:7

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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind
deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others.
This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of
thinking about others without the thoughts being
criticisms. This is rarer still.
--unknown
In _Bible Review_, p. 551 (ed. H.E. Butler) [1923].

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cachexy (noun) [kκ-'kek-si]
1/ Extremely bad state of health resulting from
malnutrition, starvation;
2/ Sick or depraved way of thinking, mental
malnourishment.

ideate (transitive verb)
To form a thought or idea of; imagine.

ruminate [ROO-muh-nayt], intransitive verb:
1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been
slightly chewed and swallowed.
2. To think again and again; to muse; to meditate;
to ponder; to reflect.
3. To chew over again.
4. To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.


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