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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.


Gaston Bachelard

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NICHOLAS GANE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY ‎The past is always an invented land.
ORHAN PAMUK That's something that's sometimes missing from academia, that kind of an idea of an intellectual - s...
JAMES CIANCIOLA I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
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A.J. DARKHOLME My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.
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ALAN MOORE Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance...
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JAMES MCTEIGUE An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an o...
HENRY FORD An idea is only valuable to the originator,others may devalue or jettison it.
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ALAN MOORE God is the giver of ideas. When He gives you an idea, it is not just about you. There is an audience...
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JOE ALSUP This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and...
JEAN ANDERSON This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and...
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AMBROSE BIERCE The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD If this truly is a war of ideas, the idea that people can be held indefinitely without charge or tri...
BEN WIZNER A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
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ANTONY BEEVOR Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abs...
JAMES G. FRAZER The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one.
ILYAS KASSAM I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interp...
MARK TWAIN Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one ...
DAVID LEVITHAN It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that m...
DON DELILLO One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be fou...
VINCENT STARRETT The idea of pushing countries around isn't valid, it doesn't work. The U.S. has to produce products ...
CHARLES MARTIN Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract u...
DAVE MATTHEWS One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea, for ideas exist forever.
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RON TURNER To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past ca...
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO They (refugees) have continued to receive half rations and we hope the generosity shown by the inter...
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H.L. MENCKEN Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence m...
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