"Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact."
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"My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others."
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"... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients."
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"Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room."
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"He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise."
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"The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights."
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"Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong."
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"It is better to have no ideas than false ones."
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"what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere."
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"One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life - whether it's a challenging experience or a pleasurable one - every experience provides me something of value if I look for it."
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"Normally book ideas come to me in a moment."
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"To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when you first get the idea and you say, "This could be really funny." And you sit down and you write it. There's just something that happens there that doesn't happen when you really give it a lot of time beforehand."
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"Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas."
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"The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status - that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me. And the benefits they bring with them, in spite of the fact that they are either dismissed or upbraided - something about their presence is constructive in the long run."
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"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."
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"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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"Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off."
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"The best ideas are common property."
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"Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work."
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"Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!"
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