"The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil."
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"When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor into its national traits, we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults."
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"Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something."
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"At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition."
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"A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is."
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"There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner."
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"The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind."
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"I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic."
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"Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is."
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"Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary."
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"The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas."
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"The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free."
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"The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."
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"Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality."
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"A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about"
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"When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army"
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"If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens."
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"I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing."
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"When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?"
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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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