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• A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Flower, Heaven, Cows

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• Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The common idea that there are some people who are creative and some who are not is a myth. On some level, we are all artists. We are all creators.

  Michael Gungor

  Creativity, Artist, People

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• The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

  Stanley Crouch

  Self, Talking, People

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• There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Commitment, Rehabilitation, Starting

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• I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure.

  Elliott Gould

  Change, Believe, Thinking

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  Daisy Ashford

  Wind, Little Things, My Own

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• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Dad, Reading, School

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• When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

  Greg Kinnear

  Kids, Order, Color

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• Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Art, Mean, Ephemeral

  Lucy R. Lippard (1973). “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

  Bran Ferren

  People, Endure, Connecting

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• Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but rather live in fear of it's own potential

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Moving, Numbers, Safety

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• The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used or even inspired by evil supernaturalism to foment destruction within the material world is for some people so exotic as to be inconceivable. Yet nothing should be more fundamentally clear, as students of

  Thomas Horn

  Technology, Men, Dna

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• It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and
  requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification

  Albert Einstein

  Community, Individuality, Important

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

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• I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an active and critical consumer, and as someone who has attempted to make the flawless and failed, I wanted a transparency of construction here. If we know how it is made and how it falls apart, we will know how to rebuild it.

  Tom Sachs

  Fall, Done, Want

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• I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

  Andy Couturier

  Thinking, People, Want

  Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.244, Stone Bridge Press

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• Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.

  William Deresiewicz

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Solitude and Leadership" by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2010.

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• I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

  Michael Gungor

  Stars, Flirting, Artist

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• My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Writing, Nails

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• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  Ugo Betti

  People, Obsession, Obsessed

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  Ugo Betti

  Men, Mad, Use

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• We change ideas like neckties.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Change, Neckties

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

  Jack Charlton

  Change, Play, People

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• Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

  Bob Riley

  Change, Running, Different Ideas

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• There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.

  Hermann Joseph Muller

  Men, Eugenics, Work Out

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