#idea

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century. ↗

— Gavin John Adams

#marketing #pamphleteers #pamphlets #viral-ideas #age

It's the right idea, but not the right time. ↗

— John Dalton

#right #right idea #right time #time

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs. ↗

— Francis Darwin

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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work. ↗

— Hal David

#concepts #done #ideas #just #song

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#describe #folks #foreign #go #home

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy. ↗

— Dorothy Day

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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. ↗

— Daniel Dennett

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