Carl Sagan Quotes, Christian Quotes, Ideas Quotes

The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

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Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

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The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.

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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

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Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

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Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

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Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

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The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

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I dont have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.

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