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• If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.

  Lee Strobel

  Wise, Teacher, Jesus

  Lee Strobel (1998). “The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus”, p.266, Zondervan

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• When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

  Constance Baker Motley

  Ideas, Lawyer, Wanted

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• I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Time, Business

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• You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.

  Jack Dorsey

  Impact, Ideas, People

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• Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Bullying

  "Keane Dives Into Cole Ploy" by Christopher Davies, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 17, 2005.

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• You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it.

  Herb Kelleher

  Crazy, Ideas, People

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• It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our mind?

  Sakyong Mipham

  Exercise, Thinking, Ideas

  Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.14, Penguin

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• You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas

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• If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Want, Ifs

  "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" by Francis Crick, oregonstate.edu. 1995.

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• But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the powerful. I'm sort of a soft-core libertarian in that my compass is generally pointing away from 'Let's let the government do this' Does it matter to me that it's Democrats who think we need more elaborate programs that involve shifting money from one group to another group or it's Republicans saying we need to take a harder look at what kinds of things people are watching on cable TV? Neither one of those things strikes me as a good idea.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Powerful, Thinking

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• See, I dont know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

  Dr. John

  Crazy, Ideas, Ego

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• It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dog, Smart, Stupid

  "'The future is going to be very exciting'". Interview With Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

  Jane Goodall

  Dark, Ideas, Agriculture

  FaceBook post by Dr. Jane Goodall from Mar 11, 2017

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• Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.

  George Burns

  Strong, Nice, Ideas

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• You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

  Seth Godin

  Fear, Failure, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.182, Penguin

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.

  Yehuda Berg

  Motivational, Ideas, Finishing

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• A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

  Richard Kinder

  Wind, Ideas, Fragility

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• There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of dollars. It isn't a politically good idea to threaten the huge budgets for women's refuges by saying that some of the women who go into them aren't total victims.

  Erin Pizzey

  Hate, Men, Ideas

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• I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity issue and we should help to channel these urges in productive behavior. Heterosexuality is God’s design. Policies that encourage young people to think this are good ideas.

  Bryan Fischer

  Teenager, Struggle, Thinking

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• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Ideas, Vietnam, Gis

  "The Search for Hanoi Hannah". Interview with Don North, www.psywarrior.com.

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• A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

  Gordon Waller

  Ideas, Brilliant Ideas, Melody

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• Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

  Reid Hoffman

  Ideas, Needs, Realizing

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• If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.

  Paul Brown

  Thinking, Ideas, Littles

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• I do not have to be high to be great. I do not have to be drunk to have a good idea. I can sit with my thoughts and not feel crazy. I can do it... I can do it without the dope.

  Lady Gaga

  Crazy, Dope, Ideas

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• All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

  Steven Spielberg

  Ideas, Long, Bad Ideas

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