Ideas

Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

Ideas

"Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion."

Children Ideas Order

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

Ideas

"The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead."

Ideas Suffering Prince Of Peace

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Claude Bernard Physiologist

Ideas

"In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead."

Ideas Moving Moving Ahead

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Claude Monet Painter

Ideas

"It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group."

Ideas Numbers Groups

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

Ideas

"SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail."

Ideas Tools Mail

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

Ideas

"Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information."

Ideas Government Information

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter

Ideas

"I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right."

Book Ideas Song

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker

Ideas

"Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask."

Giving Ideas Advice

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Brené Brown Researcher, author, speaker

Ideas

"Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky."

Ideas Reality Good Friend

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Alan Ryan Philosopher

Ideas

"Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others."

Men Ideas Roots

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer

Ideas

"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."

Ideas Law Buddhism

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer

Ideas

"The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art"

Art Ideas Choices

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Albert Einstein Physicist

Ideas

"It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality."

Ideas Beautiful Reality

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Albert Einstein Physicist

Ideas

"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one."

Ideas Religious Religion

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Albert Einstein Physicist

Ideas

"The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible"

World Ideas Events

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Alexander McQueen Fashion Designer

Ideas

"It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world."

World Ideas Vision

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Alexandre Dumas Novelist, Playwright

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"For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart."

Heart Ideas Two

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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician

Ideas

"Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful."

Ideas Education Useless

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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician

Ideas

"The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development."

Ideas Creativity Silly

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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician

Ideas

"With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful."

Ideas Powerful Sight

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