Charles Dickens Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Ideas Quotes

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

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The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.

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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

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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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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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Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

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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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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.

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Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.

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I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.

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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

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Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

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Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

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As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

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One must speak about serious things seriously.

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