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"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
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"The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise."
"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."
"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."
"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."
"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
"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."
"In a battle between - two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it."
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
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