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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
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My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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My objection to Liberalism is this - that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind - namely, politics - of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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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!
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New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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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.
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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