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262 quotesA college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Colleges and Universities
Thomas Ehrlich
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Ideas
George Eliot
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Recreation
George Eliot
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are prisoners of ideas.
Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are the prisoners of ideas.
Conflict
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Ideas
Morris L. Ernst
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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
Ideas
Ray D. Everson
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Ideals and Idealism
Henry Ford
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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
Life and Living
George Foreman
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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
Death and Dying
Edward M. Forster
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
Ideas
Edward M. Forster
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Action
Anatole France
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Death and Dying
Erich Fromm
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Ideas
Robert Frost
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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Reason
James A. Froude
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Events
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Ideals and Idealism
John Galsworthy
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Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
Procrastination
Donald Gardner
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Ideas control the world.
Ideas
James A. Garfield
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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Ideas
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
Ideas
Tobias S. Gibson
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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.
Inferiority
W. S. Gilbert
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Seriousness
Brendan Gill
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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Ideas
Arnold H. Glasgow
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun