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The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

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I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

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If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn't today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves. I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring.

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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

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Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

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My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

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It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

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Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

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Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

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The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

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Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

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Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

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