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

"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."

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

"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."

"Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated."

"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."

"I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future."
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"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever."

"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."

"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."
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