"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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"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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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."

Frederic Raphael, British Screenwriter

Ideas, America, University

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

John Cage, American Composer

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"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right."

Suzy Bogguss, American Musician

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

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

Dawn French, British Comedian

Ideas, Being, Film

"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."

Lucinda Williams, American Musician

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

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

Ideas, Clouds

"Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events."

Matthew Ashford, American Actor

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"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"

Andrew McCarthy, American Actor

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"Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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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."

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

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