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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

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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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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

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Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

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

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Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

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There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

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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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It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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I haven't encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way. I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it's a good idea to know that. It's always good to go with your gift.

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Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

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We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

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Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

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