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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
Abraham Lincoln
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
Aristotle
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
Dwight Eisenhower
"The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good."
Dwight Eisenhower
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
Henry Mencken
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
John Locke
"We need men who can dream of things that never were."
John F. Kennedy
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"
Joseph Stalin
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
Laurence Peter
"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
Marcel Proust
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain
"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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