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Who can tell us how the movement of matter in the brain causes what we call thought.
Cobwebs of Thought Arachne
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But our dispute, friend, is concerning the nature of that subtle essence which we call thought.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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But our dispute, friend, is concerning the nature of that subtle essence which we call thought.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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But our dispute, friend, is concerning the nature of that subtle essence which we call thought.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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But our dispute, friend, is concerning the nature of that subtle essence which we call thought.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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But our dispute, friend, is concerning the nature of that subtle essence which we call thought.
The White Company 1890
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Calling thought a kind of motion, we may say that in action it propagates itself from the mind through the brain into the outer world; while in the apprehension of an idea motions of the outer world pass into the brain, and there set up those motions which we know as thought.
The Nature of Goodness George Herbert Palmer 1887
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Without noticing this hint of professional employment, the poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague reverie, which he called thought.
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"Here's where we will live, Bourrienne," he said, suddenly, as if the latter had followed him through the mental labyrinth in which he wandered, following the thread of Ariadne which we call thought.
The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Without noticing this hint of professional employment, the poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague reverie, which he called thought.
The Snow Image and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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