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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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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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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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I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

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Sitting in a room being forced to listen to 'The Chanukah Song' over and over." [on his idea of Hell]

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The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

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My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

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We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.

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When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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