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Ideas

«The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and every creed»
«The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.»
«The history of mankind is the history of ideas.»
«The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas»
«The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.»
«The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.»
«The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?»
«The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: Ideas | Keywords: adopt, enforce, idiotic
«The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.»
«The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.»