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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

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Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are. A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.

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I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

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She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

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When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

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I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

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An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

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If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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