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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

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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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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

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When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

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The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

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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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The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

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

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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

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In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

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My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

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I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

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