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Idea Quotes by Mark Twain
- The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way…
- Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to…
- Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad…
- It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
- If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
- Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one…
- He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.
- I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
- If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental…
- My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
- In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which…
- To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
- A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the…
- His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea…
- God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day…
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- If someone is mad at you and you have no idea why, that means they are crazy. Or a girl. — Nikhil Saluja
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- Take Me Or Leave Me Accept Me Or Walk Away, Love Me Or Hate Me But Dont Make Me Feel Like Less… — Superman
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a… — Joseph Barbera