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		Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adolf Hitler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Seth Godin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't know what's next, and I like that idea. It's a little scary, but it's also beautiful. When you're open, anything can come your way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sasha Lane
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Polya
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		We want our users to use the Found Money feature so they can get extra money while they shop, which will be invested in their future. And that's a powerful idea for our customers, and it is a powerful idea for brands because from their perspective they are increasing loyalty for their brands by investing in their customers' future. And of course it helps us grow our business.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Noah Kerner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I missed the idea of him more than he himself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Beth Harbison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steve Jobs
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ken Robinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it could even be interactive. Being a lover of photography, I especially like the idea that you could include lots of pictures - full-color pictures - with your writing. That to me is exciting! We'll all have to stay tuned to see what develops.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elaine Equi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barbara Marx Hubbard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The idea of celebrity is becoming more and more appealing to people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian McGinn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cory Arcangel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Michael Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emily Barton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eugene Richards
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edward Zigler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was the perfect invention. It was simple to implement the technology, but it brought an old idea (auctions) into a new domain (the Internet).
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Hargadon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elana Dykewomon