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

Ideas, Idea, Intellect, Curiosity, Thought

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

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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas."

Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity

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"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm."

Thomas John Watson, Sr., American Businessman

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"I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them-to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else."

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"She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe."

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"I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or "seeding" idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery."

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"Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands."

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