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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.


J. Richard Munro

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CARL WEBB How to get it, I annoy you???
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ANNA LEVIEN Hey, that turned out not to be such a good idea. I'd better not do that anymore.
FRANK HERBERT A great idea is like a big camp fire & all small opposing minds that dare it may be consumed.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It didn't seem like a bad idea.
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JERRY NARRON He had no idea what Matthews was doing, and he was crushed when he found out.
COLIN MURRAY Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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DANIS TANOVIC I wasn't crazy about the idea.
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JAMES PURNELL My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
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ARCHIE SHEPP You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
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ANNE MILLING Absolutely, good idea, great idea. I thought that was one of the better things he said.
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GEORGE MARTIN ...My idea of God is a not divine idea. It has to be shattered from time to time. He shatters it Him...
C.S. LEWIS To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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HECTOR HUGH MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, whil...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one go...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul,...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blam...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu...
WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood tha...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO