"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

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"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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