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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859) -
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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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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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.
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928) -
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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