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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world."

Ideas Fighting Struggle
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Charles James Fashion Designer
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"Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time."

Ideas Cutting Design
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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target."

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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
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"Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland"

Years Ideas Today
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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
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"The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge."

People Ideas Simple
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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have."

Ideas Watches Kindness
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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
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"The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions."

Heart Ideas Enlightenment
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude."

People Ideas Attitude
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better."

People Ideas Should
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
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"An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message."

Ideas Doe Intelligent
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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas."

Ideas Development Rupture
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Fidel Castro Politician, Revolutionary
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"Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief."

Ideas Democracy Cuba
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Irwin Shaw Novelist, Playwright
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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."

Writing Ideas Glasses
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