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Ideas
«Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.»
Author: Adam Clayton Powell
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Ideas
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liberalism, moderated, outmoded, progressivism, radicalism, rampant, trace
«Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
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cherished, positively, vague
«I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.»
«Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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Ideas
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confirming, confirms, enlarge, enlarging, meeting, outlook, to enlarge, unique, unlike
«I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure [Jesus Christ].»
«I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Ideas,
Self-knowledge,
Talent
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brought, certainly, combined, combines, criticism, curiosity, dogged, endurance, My ideas, No self, obsession, obsessions, self-criticism, special, talent
«Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Ideas,
Simplicity
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comprehensible, essentially, expressed, fundamental, simple language
«Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
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adaptation, adaptations, keep on, lookout, successfully