"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Ideas, Idea, Originality, Criticism, Conformity

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"For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas."

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"It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say."

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"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."

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