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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

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Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

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An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

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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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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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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

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I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

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He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

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... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

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The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

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