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Image of D. H. Lawrence
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Fran Lebowitz
China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
- Fran Lebowitz
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Image of Fran Lebowitz
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
- Fran Lebowitz
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Image of Dalai Lama
Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Vladimir Lenin
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
- Vladimir Lenin
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Image of Edwin Land
The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
- Edwin Land
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Image of Allen W. Wood
It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.
- Allen W. Wood
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Image of Dov Davidoff
Throwing up is natures way of saying you need to re-examine your idea of a good time.
- Dov Davidoff
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Karl Kraus
Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.
- Karl Kraus
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Image of Karl Kraus
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
- Karl Kraus
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Image of Donald Knuth
Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.
- Donald Knuth
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Image of C. S. Lewis
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of David Levithan
No funny stuff in here tonight, you understand?” Dash said, “I assure you I could not contemplate any of your so-called funny stuff seeing as how I have no idea why I’m even here.” Mark scoffed. “You bookish little pervert.” “Thank you, sir!” Dash said brightly.
- David Levithan
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Image of Christian Lacroix
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.
- Christian Lacroix
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Image of Paul Krugman
America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
- Paul Krugman
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Image of Philip Larkin
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
- Philip Larkin
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Image of Mario Vargas Llosa
Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
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Image of John Locke
Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
- John Locke
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Image of Dalai Lama
I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier.
- Dalai Lama
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Image of Soren Kierkegaard
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Image of Henry Adams
There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!
- Henry Adams
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Image of D. H. Lawrence
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Stephen King
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
- Stephen King
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Image of Katherine Mansfield
Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.
- Katherine Mansfield
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Image of Karl Marx
Ideas do not exist separately from language.
- Karl Marx
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Image of Richelle Mead
So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.
- Richelle Mead
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Image of H. L. Mencken
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of George Lucas
I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.
- George Lucas
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Image of Dave Barry
Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.
- Dave Barry
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Image of H. L. Mencken
Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Christian Louboutin
You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!
- Christian Louboutin
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Image of Cathy O'Neil
Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.
- Cathy O'Neil
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Image of Terence McKenna
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Steve McQueen
There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.
- Steve McQueen
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Image of Terence McKenna
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of H. L. Mencken
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Marilyn Manson
I put out a lot of ideas in the lyrics and the way I do my things. There's a lot of ideas floatin' around and people who know what it is. People will pick it up if they know what to pick up.
- Marilyn Manson
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Image of Marilyn Manson
The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.
- Marilyn Manson
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Image of Orison Swett Marden
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
- Orison Swett Marden
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Image of Eva Mendes
I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
- Eva Mendes
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Image of Steve Martin
When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.
- Steve Martin
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Image of Rich Lowry
Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news.
- Rich Lowry
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Image of Francois Mauriac
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
- Francois Mauriac
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Image of Terence McKenna
What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Christopher McDougall
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
- Christopher McDougall
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