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Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did -- but they only thought of it. 
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Having ideas is like having chessmen moving forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. 
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You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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A number 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. 
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. 
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Ideas are the root of creation. 
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea. 
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. 
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We cannot take anything for granted beyond the first mathematical formulae. Question everything else. 
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It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon, as five years too late.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. 
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An idea is salvation by imagination. 
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Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. 
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. 
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Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. 
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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Ideas must work their way through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. 
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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. 
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. 
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. 
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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. 
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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. 
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. 
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. 
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it. 
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. 
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The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. 
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In a war of ideas it is the people who get killed. 
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. 
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build. 
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To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions. 
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If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. 
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An cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. 
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For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. 
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what is seeks and great by what it finds. 
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Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. 
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. 
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools.
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The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. 
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It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when its the only one we have. 
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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. 
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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.
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
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General notions are generally wrong.
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