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• No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

  Anne Sullivan

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  The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

  Thornton Wilder

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• Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

  Richard Bach

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  Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

  Dōgen

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• Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

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• You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.

  Medgar Evers

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• The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

  Criss Jami

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• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  Charles Dickens

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• On my walks, that’s when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you’re sitting at the computer and it’s kind of intense and you’re kind of in super control of it – the walks are when you let go. That’s when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it’s very strange.

  Maria Semple

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  Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

  Rumi

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• 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.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

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• The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

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• Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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• Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

  Isaiah Berlin

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• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

  Gautama Buddha

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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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• We can’t live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we’re all doomed.

  Dean Kamen

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• The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

  Gary Locke

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• We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don’t have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

  Dan Pallotta

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• My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

  Buckminster Fuller

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