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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Communism and Socialism
Winston Churchill

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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Ideals and Idealism
Winston Churchill

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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Committees and Meetings
Barnett Cock

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Ideas
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.
Money
Robert Collier

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.
Money
Robert Collier

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
Ideas
David H Comins

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The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
America
Calvin Coolidge

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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Ideals and Idealism
Calvin Coolidge

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.
Ideas
Arthur F. Corey

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.
Ideas
Cotvos

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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Libraries
Norman Cousins

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If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Possibilities
Richard M. DeVos

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Ideas are the roots of creation.
Ideas
Ernest Dimnet

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Ideas
Benjamin Disraeli

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Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Agreement
Benjamin Disraeli

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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Ideas
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Advertising
Norman Douglas

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Science and Scientists
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
Mathematics
R. Drabek

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Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.
Effort
H. W. Dresses

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Ideas
Thomas A. Edison

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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Ideas
Thomas A. Edison

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Ideas
Thomas A. Edison

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun