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"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."
"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
"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."
"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."
"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
"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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