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The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all the...

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It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

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What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitu...

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Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

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What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitu...

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Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

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What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitu...

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Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

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What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitu...

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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any idea...

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The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "...

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They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an id...

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Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's ...

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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, a...

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I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have s...

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This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscros...

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Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't fo...

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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really de...

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Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come ...

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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dr...

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No man is as big as his own idea.

I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wil...

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You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your be...

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Ray BradburyZen in the Art of Writing

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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Ray BradburyZen in the Art of Writing

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to th...

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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yoursel...

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Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather tha...

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An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

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Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

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Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

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Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned w...

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I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe t...

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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's viv...

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Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while r...

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I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetical...

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have...

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Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

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Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

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Ron PaulLiberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

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Ron PaulLiberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, bu...

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In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, ...

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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout ...

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Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

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Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be...

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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with t...

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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilit...

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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post do...

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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square...

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We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had...

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When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, per...

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, per...

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, per...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)We Have Always Lived in the Castle

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, per...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.

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Spider RobinsonCallahan's Crosstime Saloon

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profo...

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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed ...

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When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll kn...

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We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfe...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....

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What I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being ...

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Ted HughesPoetry in the Making: An Anthology

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring bac...

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I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. ...

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The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths,...

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Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of r...

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Terry PratchettUnseen Academicals

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as inte...

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She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects...

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Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e. with the recognition that nature has somehow...

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Thomas KuhnThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who ligh...

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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...

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Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas...

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Thomas JeffersonLetters of Thomas Jefferson

If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions an...

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It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who...

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