"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."

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"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."

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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

Idea, Fanaticism

"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road."

Geoff Downes, English Musician

Idea, Environment, Road

"I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems."

Alec Baldwin, American Actor

Idea, President, states, United

"When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state."

Swami Vivekananda, Indian Clergyman

Idea, Mind, State

"I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks."

Sean Booth, English Musician

Idea, Building, Dress, Hate

"I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful."

Sean Booth, English Musician

Idea, Being, Engineering

"It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other."

Ann Wilson, American Musician

Idea,

"After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times."

Sandra Bullock, American Actress

Idea, Old

"The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Idea, Brothers, World

"I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it."

Martin Gore, English Musician

Idea, Play, Will

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"By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."

Life

"The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being."

Science

"The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed."

Act

"The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux."

Change

"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."

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