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All great ideas are dangerous.
OSCAR WILDE, De Profundis
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, "The Crack Up"
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
THOMAS HARDY, letter, Jul. 8, 1901
I try not to do anything that's too close to what I've done before. And the nice thing is we have a big universe here. It's filled with new ideas. All you have to do is grab them.
STAN LEE, Brandweek, May 2000
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO, Histoire d'un crime
The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, American Note-Books, 1836
America is not just a country, it's an idea.
Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
LISA RANDALL, New York Times, Sep. 18, 2005
Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jun. 4, 2009
Ideas are your children, for you have no others. Ideas are your contribution to posterity.
SIMON MAWER, The Gospel of Judas
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