Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children Quotes, Ideas Quotes

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

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Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

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My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

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Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

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The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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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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And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

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The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

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The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

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The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

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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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Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions

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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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