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  • As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Dedication 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Christian Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Fit Quotes
  • If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Silence Quotes