"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
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"The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task."
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"Good ideas are often murdered by better ones."
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"In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation."
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"You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!"
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"Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom."
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"I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day."
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"Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers."
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"The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."
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"Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio."
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"Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel."
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"On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing; and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it."
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"Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind."
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"I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words."
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"Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers."
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"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."
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"I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force."
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"My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines."
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"We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people."
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"Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years."
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