"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

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"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Ideas, Idea, Knowledge, Persistence, Thought

"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."

Henry Bessemer, English Scientist

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"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

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"Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask."

Bryn Terfel, Welsh Musician

Ideas, Acting, Being

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Ideas, Idea, Life, Living, Values

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

John Cage, American Composer

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"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Leader

Ideas, Aggression, Force, State

"Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world."

Lionel Suggs, American Writer

Ideas, Idea, Power, Destruction, Imagination

"A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas."

Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity

Ideas, Evolution, Example, Fact

"Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable."

Dave Davies, British Musician

Ideas, Years

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"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds."

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"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."

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"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."

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"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

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