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Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else
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Pablo Picasso
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought
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Victor Hugo
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come
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Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds
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Aristotle
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world
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Friedrich Nietzsche
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago
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Johann Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance
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Johann Goethe
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation
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Johann Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game
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Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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