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“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and that it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked and if it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? - because you're not!” 
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Douglas Adams

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“Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?” 
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William James

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“She accused him of having grandiose ideas and sloppy habits, a fatal combination for a writer.” 
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Isabel Allende

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“There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.”
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B. K. S. Iyengar

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(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.
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Mahatama Gandhi

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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
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Magic Johnson

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And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
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Madeleine Albright

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I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.
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Madeleine Albright

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Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

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"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."
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Elon Musk

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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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Vivienne Westwood

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Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.
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Ludwig Von Mises

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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Ludwig Von Mises

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I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.
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Louis Tomlinson

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My ideas for the future? To take over the world.
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Louis Tomlinson

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Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a danger only if he transforms them into fixed ideas-this is why I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: 'The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.'
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Louis Pasteur

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"I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed."
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Samuel Johnson

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"We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes."
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Cesar Chavez

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"...many have the idea that organizing people is very difficult, but it isn't. It becomes difficult only at the point where you begin to see other things that are easier. But if you are willing to give the time and make the sacrifice, it's not that difficult to organize."
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Cesar Chavez

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"Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way."
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Cesar Chavez

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"I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it."
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Cesar Chavez

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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
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John Ruskin

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"I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that."
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Carol Burnett

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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Carl Sagan

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

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"I've been close to Dan and Kathryn for years and impressed by their financial ideas and philosophies. This new institute and release of their new program will allow them to achieve their dream of helping their fellow man as well as giving new hope to those in financial need."
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Denis Waitley

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"America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible."
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Buzz Aldrin

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"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."
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Dawn French

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"The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation."
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Buzz Aldrin

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“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”
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Adam Smith

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“... the typical worker who through the whole of his life...pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquility...It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.”
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Adam Smith

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“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.”
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Adam Smith

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“Here, then, are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions: indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity.”
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Alexander Hamilton

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“You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.”
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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].
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Walter Benjamin

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I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
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Whoopi Goldberg

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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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Willa Cather

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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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William Gerald Golding

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Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
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William Shatner

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I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
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William Shatner

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Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.
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Vanessa Hudgens

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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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T. D Jakes

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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun

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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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Ted Nugent

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Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.
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Thomas Mann

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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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Thomas Merton

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Damn you all. You have no idea what you're heading into. This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell.
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Thomas Pynchon

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[...] times of great idealism carry equal chances for great corruptibility.
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Thomas Pynchon

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