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"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!"

"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!"

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

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

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

"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!"

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"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!"

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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"I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train."


"The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago."


"I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off."


"I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance."


"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."


"It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect."


"One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!"
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