"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."

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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."

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"First thoughts are not always the best."

Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist

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"I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked."

Mark Roberts, American Actor

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"I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is."

Eddie Van Halen, Dutch Musician

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"Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting."

Francis Schaeffer, American Theologian

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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Joan Didion, American Author

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"I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself."

Laurel Clark, American Astronaut

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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

John B. S. Haldane, British Scientist

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"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

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"I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises."

Arthur Balfour, British Statesman

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"Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference."

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"The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future."

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"With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse."

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"It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require."

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"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."

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"If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts."

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"Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities."

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"The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income."

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