Ideas Quotes
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
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I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...
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There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
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That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?
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Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.
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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
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I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.
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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
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I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
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My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.
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We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.
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Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
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People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.
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If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
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A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.
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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
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What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.
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You should be able to grab people with ideas.
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For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
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You've got a good idea, how do you make it stick?
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As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.