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Ideas Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,…
- The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,…
- General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
- Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have…
- The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon…
- In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of…
- The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
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- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
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- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe