“ Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul. ”
- Ingrid Bergman- Copy
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“ Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. ”
- Jean Racine- Copy
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“ There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ I have always fought for ideas — until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. ”
- Margaret Anderson- Copy
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“ Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. ”
- George Berkeley- Copy
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“ You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
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“ Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. ”
- John Templeton- Copy
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“ Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
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“ Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make. ”
- Charles Eames- Copy
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“ The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future. ”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger- Copy
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“ I think indicting the president would not be a great idea, but clearly that's something in the Congress that we can't control,... Late Edition. ”
- Mitch McConnell- Copy
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“ Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. ”
- Steve McCurry- Copy
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“ If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality… ”
- Stephen Covey- Copy
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“ Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them… ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
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“ It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work… ”
- Mary Caroline Richards- Copy
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“ Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed - or certain to fail - such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies). ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. ”
- Milton Avery- Copy
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“ Because a given era lacked a given body of information, we feel that its whole consciousness was naive. We can, therefore, sniff at, say, twelfth-century imagery of evil along with twelfth-century notions as to the shape of the solar system. The idea is that, having come upon information that supervenes the medieval cosmology, we can thereby dismiss all medieval notions as merely medieval. ”
- Thomas Howard- Copy
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