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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

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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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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

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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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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

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The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

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I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

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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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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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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

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Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

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What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

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No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

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All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

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