#ideas

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. ↗

— David Frum

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What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance. ↗

— David Frum

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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas. ↗

— John Frusciante

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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. ↗

— Karl Marx

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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Ideas control the world. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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