#idea

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #behind #beyond #campaign #defensive

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#combined #complete #determinism #hard #human

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. ↗

— Heinrich Mann

#better way #construct #contains #elevating #ideas

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#bring #cancer #cause #classic #discovered

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

#because #go #go home #gonna #had

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

#afraid #behind #disliked #good #good actors

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. ↗

— Rollo May

#betrayed #express #ideas #listen #original

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. ↗

— Linus Pauling

#best way #good #good idea #idea #ideas

The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage. ↗

— James Payn

#bringing #calculated #doubtless #eyebrows #idea