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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
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