"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

Idea, Pen, Style, Will

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"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far."

Lance Henriksen, American Actor

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"There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea."

Peter Noone, English Actor

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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail."

Judge Mills Lane, American Celebrity

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about."

Elliott Abrams, American Lawyer

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"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."

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"Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient."

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"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

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"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."

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"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."

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"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."

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"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

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