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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken
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The best ideas are common property. -Seneca
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Thomas A. Edison
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. -Walter Bagehot
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Arthur C. Clarke
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. -Hyman Rickover
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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz
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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Antoine Rivarol
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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. -Sir Frederick G. Banting
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Avram Noam Chomsky
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Ideas are the building blocks of ideas.

Jason Zebehazy
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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.  -J. B. S. Haldane
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I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Marcel Duchamp
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Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about.

Ashleigh Brilliant
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An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible. -Russell Hoban
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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure [Jesus Christ].

Fidel Castro
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself. -Dr. Rollo May
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It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome
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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Murray Kempton
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. -Joseph Stalin
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas
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You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, For they will come into being together.

Arnold Schoenberg
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -John Cage
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

Pearl Bailey
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Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false.

Charles Sanders Peirce
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Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated. -William Pollard
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