#ideas

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#big ideas #i #ideas #like #me

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find. ↗

— John McTiernan

#hard #ideas #provocative #script #works

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

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We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#ideas #live #making #our #own

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. ↗

— Joanna Russ

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When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference. ↗

— AnnaSophia Robb

#big ideas #change #difference #dreams #feel

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. ↗

— Jane Smiley

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