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Ideas

«Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.»
Author: Antoine Rivarol | About: Ideas
«Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.»
Author: Camilo Jose Cela | About: Ideas | Keywords: Head down, on paper, put down
«Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.»
«Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.»
«Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.»
Author: Bill Moyers | About: Ideas | Keywords: bow and arrow, idealism
«Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.»
«Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.»
«Ideas are, in truth, force.»
Author: Henry James | About: Ideas | Keywords: in truth
«Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | About: Ideas | Keywords: couple, dozen, handle, rabbits, rabbit on
«Ideas are fatal to caste»
Author: E. M. Forster (Essayist, Novelist) | About: Ideas | Keywords: caste

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