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> [Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/ideas-are-powerful-things-requiring-not-a-studious-contemplation-but/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

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> [Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/ideas-are-powerful-things-requiring-not-a-studious-contemplation-but-2/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

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## More by Midge Decter

> [Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/women-s-liberation-calls-it-enslavement-but-the-real-truth-about-the/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

> [It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/it-might-sound-a-paradoxical-thing-to-say-for-surely-never-has-a/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

> [There comes a time to join the side you're on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/there-comes-a-time-to-join-the-side-you-re-on/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

> [We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/we-re-not-in-the-middle-east-to-bring-sweetness-and-light-to-the/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

> [The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/the-hatred-of-the-youth-culture-for-adult-society-is-not-a/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

> [Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/ideas-are-powerful-things-requiring-not-a-studious-contemplation-but/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

> [We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/we-allowed-you-a-charade-of-trivial-freedoms-in-order-to-avoid-making/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

> [Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/midge-decter/ideas-are-powerful-things-requiring-not-a-studious-contemplation-but-2/)

[Midge Decter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/midge-decter/)

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