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Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is ...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit ...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk ro...

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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees ...

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people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from...

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Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the h...

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the h...

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the h...

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the h...

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My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes c...

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A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights,...

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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

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Johan HuizingaHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

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The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

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The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

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The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thin...

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The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the si...

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My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater ...

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Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers hav...

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New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that ...

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An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it ha...

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The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume the...

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The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar t...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on,...

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If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my des...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea...

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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in ...

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Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unim...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should ...

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The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get ...

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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that...

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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries of...

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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use...

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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no lon...

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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the indiv...

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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed...

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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker bec...

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'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case...

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Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particul...

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No man is as big as his own idea.

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater al...

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René DescartesPrinciples of Philosophy

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our ...

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This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government

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Ron PaulThe Revolution: A Manifesto

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other d...

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The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secul...

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All th...

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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, an...

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I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and...

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I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm comp...

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No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on...

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May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Budd...

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My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something th...

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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United ...

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is err...

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious...

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I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later t...

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I really believe in the idea of the future.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but...

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There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only a...

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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.