Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done"
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Ideas
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Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa."
Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?"
Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now."
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"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."
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"Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from."
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"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."
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"By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes."
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"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."
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"I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own"
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"Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society."
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"And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness."
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"Ideas do not need weapons."
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"Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it."
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"Words that do not match deeds are not important."
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"Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly."
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"You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart."
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"Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas."
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"Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'."
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"A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising."
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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
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"Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex"
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"I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit."
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"The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God."
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