Idea
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
You were made perfectly to be loved — and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing... not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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