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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
Ideas

"In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended."

Ideas Dream Essence
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
Ideas

"She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do."

Heart Country Ideas
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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
Ideas

"It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes."

Ideas Dream Stupid
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Fernando Pessoa Poet, Writer
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"The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn."

Real Ideas Sleep
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."

Men Ideas Intellectual
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Ideas

"You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas"

Thinking Ideas Night
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Nathan Lowell Author
Ideas

"I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do.""

People Ideas Phones
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership."

Ideas Form Persevere
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present."

Mean Ideas Party
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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
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"The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are like this ("A Few Good Men"), central to the idea of the movie."

Ideas Character Play
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Gary Vaynerchuk Entrepreneur, Author
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"While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few businesses have followed."

Ideas Media Cozy
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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything."

World Ideas Embarrassment
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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Ideas

"Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here."

Ideas Cities New York
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Nehemiah Adams Clergyman
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"If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will."

Ideas God Communication
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Neil Gaiman Author
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"I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it."

Writing Way Ideas
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