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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by
a sneer or by a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to
death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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-Charles Brower
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The experience of confronting both new ideas
and people who think differently from oneself has traditionally formed the
heart of a liberal education.
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-David Denby
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An idea, like a ghost . . . must be spoken to
a little before it will explain itself.
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-Charles Dickens
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Ideas run wild without discussion.
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-Serge Kahili King
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An idea is not responsible for the people who
believe in it.
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-Damon Knight
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A young man must let his ideas grow, not be
continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
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-William McFee
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A cultured person is one who can entertain
himself, entertain guests, and entertain ideas.
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-Laurence J. Peter
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~Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
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Laurence J. Peter
Peter's Quotations: Ideas For Our Time,
1977
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*An idea unexpressed in
physical action is a contemptible hypocrisy.
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-Francisco D'Anconia, a hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part Two : Either-Or, Ch. IV, "The Sanction of the Victim"
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Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of
opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should
treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth
entertaining.
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-Unknown
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