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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."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"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!"

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

"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!"

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

"And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."

"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."

"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force."
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