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They are encouraged to follow his Zenlike dictum, "First thought, best thought".
The Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche said it, and Allen Ginsberg called it art: "First thought, best thought".
He explained that "First thought, best thought" did not mean "First draft, best draft".
Poet Allen Ginsberg once said, "First thought, best thought".
First thought, best thought?
"They did what they thought best".
I went ahead and did what I thought best.
Thus, Bonaparte could conclude the Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria as he thought best.
(Ducks then were raised on straw beds so unhygienic it was thought best to confit them).
"Hamlet," Freud thought, best exemplified the appeal of managed self-expression.
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The motto "First Thought Best Thought" held true for us but not in any poetic sense.
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