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• Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Party, Intimate Relationships

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• You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

  Benjamin Walker

  Ideas, Jokes, Knows

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• It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

  Ann Wilson

  Ideas, Band, Get Involved

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• Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

  Vinod Khosla

  Ideas, Purpose, Biofuels

  "On The Record: Vinod Khosla". San Francisco Chronicle Interview,, www.sfgate.com. May 11, 2008.

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• When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.

  Christian D. Larson

  Adversity, Thinking, Ideas

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

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• I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

  Willie Nelson

  Cutting, Ideas, Use

  Source: www.gq.com

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• After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.

  Douglas Gwyn

  Ideas, Choices, Leader

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• It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

  Claude Monet

  Ideas, Numbers, Groups

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

  Ben Horowitz

  Ideas, Innovation, Looks

  "The Future of the Car Is Electric" by atrick Daniel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.

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• Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Ideas, Psychics

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• Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

  Christian Audigier

  Mean, Ideas, Worst

  Interview with Andrew Cliver, www.askmen.com.

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• You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Discovery, Ideas

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• 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 of example

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Ideas, Always Trying

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.241, Xist Publishing

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• I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

  "Christopher Hitchens On Mother Theresa". Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 16, Number 4, www.webpages.uidaho.edu.

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• I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

  John Lydon

  Government, Ideas, Liberty

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• While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn't sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn't such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Moon, Night, Ideas

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• I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options such as wind and solar.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mean, Wind, Ideas

  "Learning the Truth about Coal and Nuclear Energy" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2007.

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• The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Simple, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.32, Penguin

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• The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Children, Cutting, Ideas

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

  Karl Popper

  Ideas, Survival, Values

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• I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together.
  It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

  Michelle Mone

  Ideas, Together, Unions

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

  Edward Boyden

  Ideas, Sound, Good Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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