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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain
"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."
Marcel Proust
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
Siddhartha Buddha
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
Henry Mencken
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
Abraham Lincoln
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
Dwight Eisenhower
"Great ideas originate in the muscles."
Thomas Edison
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"
Joseph Stalin
"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
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
Aristotle
"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
Thomas Edison
"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
John Locke
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
Sydney Harris
"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."
Victor Hugo
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
Laurence Peter
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