Ernest Dimnet Quotes
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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The good ideas will survive.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
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When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life... so love what you do. Your time is limited. Don't waste it.
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
