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Idea, ideas
An idea is a point of departure. As soon as you elaborate it, it can be further modified or at times becomes transformed. [Cf. Pablo Picasso]A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. [Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort]
Some men appear to be prisoners of ideas. [Cf. Ralph Waldo Emerson]
To combat others you should have good equipment, not only good ideas from inside.
No matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. [Henry Block]
Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work. Be among the last ones to get richer.
Never hesitate to lay claim on a good idea. [Cf. Al Neuharth]
Great ideas whose time have come may be great fun to be with.
It helps ideas to find good and savoury patrons in the arts.
Cardinal images and ideas contain kingly factors that lift civilisation and at intervals create needed upheavals, one way or another. [Cf. John H. Vincent]
The value of a good idea lies in the fit use of it. [With Thomas A. Edison]
To host a great idea you have to live it out fairly often, fairly well, and if you don't you may have to recuperate till your guts get restored.
It is because the world has ideas that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach, once and for all, what others have to think. [With Michel Foucault]
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