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"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"

"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."

"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."

"I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived."
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