"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."

Ideas, Defense, Neglect, Existence, Change

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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."

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Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."

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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician

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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?"

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"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."

Robyn Hitchcock, English Musician

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"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."

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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."

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"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."

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"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."

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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

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