"When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea."
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"Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes."
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"The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child."
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"These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life."
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"I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray."
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"In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people."
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"In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance."
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"Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal."
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"L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary."
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"there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of oversimplified ideas - they prefer the book reviews to the books, the headlines and the leading paragraph to the full report, the generalization to the facts, and the negative to the positive."
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"Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence."
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"Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea."
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"Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country."
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"I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind."
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"It is important to expose yourself to ideas you don't agree with from time to time. Attend a political rally of a party you do not like."
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"The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects."
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"It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense."
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"As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed."
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"There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied."
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"It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?"
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