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"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"
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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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