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Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

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Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.

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Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

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This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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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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I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting

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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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I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

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I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

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