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Image of H. P. Lovecraft
Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
- H. P. Lovecraft
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Image of Ignatius of Loyola
A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.
- Ignatius of Loyola
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Image of Nelson Mandela
There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Nelson Mandela
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Dale Jamieson
The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.
- Dale Jamieson
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Image of Dale Jamieson
I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.
- Dale Jamieson
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Image of John C. Maxwell
Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.
- John C. Maxwell
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Image of George Lucas
I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money.
- George Lucas
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Image of Elliott Colla
The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.
- Elliott Colla
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Image of Karl Barth
There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.
- Karl Barth
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Image of David Livermore
May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.
- David Livermore
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Image of Terence McKenna
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of Terence McKenna
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of John C. Maxwell
Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"
- John C. Maxwell
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Image of Harvey Mackay
The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.
- Harvey Mackay
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Image of Bill Maher
To give you an idea how slowly we are leaving Afghanistan, Afghans don't refer to us anymore as 'infidel crusaders.' They refer to us as 'Irish relatives.'
- Bill Maher
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Image of Henri Matisse
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
- Henri Matisse
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Image of St. Lucia
I had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.
- St. Lucia
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Image of St. Lucia
When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.
- St. Lucia
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Image of Douglas MacArthur
From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"
- Douglas MacArthur
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Image of George MacDonald
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?
- George MacDonald
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Image of George Lucas
I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work.
- George Lucas
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Image of George Lucas
All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.
- George Lucas
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Image of Steve Martin
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!
- Steve Martin
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Image of Ewan McGregor
I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.
- Ewan McGregor
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Image of Nelson Mandela
You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Max Lucado
Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.
- Max Lucado
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Image of Ian Mckellen
You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see it, they might know what they want but no idea how to get it out of the actor, then you've both got a problem.
- Ian Mckellen
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Image of David Lynch
You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.
- David Lynch
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Image of Warren MacKenzie
[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.
- Warren MacKenzie
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Image of Herbert Marcuse
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.
- Herbert Marcuse
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Image of David Lynch
The ideas dictate everything.
- David Lynch
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Image of David Lynch
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
- David Lynch
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Image of Demetri Martin
Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.
- Demetri Martin
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Image of Peter Lynch
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon
- Peter Lynch
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Image of Bill Maher
Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail - gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!
- Bill Maher
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Image of Benoit Mandelbrot
The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may not be true. And that idea is still unproven. It is the foundation, what started me and what everybody failed to **** prove has so far defeated the greatest efforts by experts to be proven.
- Benoit Mandelbrot
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Image of Benoit Mandelbrot
Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
- Benoit Mandelbrot
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Image of William J. Duiker
[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.
- William J. Duiker
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Image of William J. Duiker
Sun Tzu's ideas as expressed above had a profound effect on Ho Chi Minh, who sought to defeat both the French and the Americans without recourse to violence - or at least to conventional battle tactics.
- William J. Duiker
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Image of George Lucas
When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.
- George Lucas
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Image of Richelle Mead
I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.
- Richelle Mead
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Image of Karl Marx
When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.
- Karl Marx
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Image of Shirley MacLaine
I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.
- Shirley MacLaine
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Image of Peyton Manning
Whatever happens, happens. I can't give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he'll get a feel for where I am and I’ll get a sense of what direction he wants to go. Right now, I have no idea.
- Peyton Manning
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Image of Harriet Martineau
The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.
- Harriet Martineau
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Image of Terence McKenna
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
- Terence McKenna
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Image of David Mamet
What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
- David Mamet
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Image of Chris Matthews
I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.
- Chris Matthews
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