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• Are you sure this is a good idea?' whispered the unicorn. 'No,' said Rupert. 'But it's our best chance to find a dragon.' 'Frankly, that doesn't strike me as such a hot idea either,' muttered the unicorn.

  Simon R. Green

  Dragons, Ideas, Hot

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• Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.

  Mira Grant

  Brother, Years, Ideas

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• She wondered why she’d ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ideas, Eyeliner, Trusting Someone

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• Next caller. Betty, you're on the air. What's your question ?" "Hi, Kitty. I just wanted to know, are you going out with that Cormac guy from last month?" My jaw dropped. "What?" "Are you going out with that Cormac guy?" "We are talking about the same Cormac who tried to kill me on the air, yes? the guy who hunts werewolves for a living ?" "Uh-huh." "And you want to know if I'm dating him ? Why on earth do you think that's a good idea?

  Carrie Vaughn

  Thinking, Air, Talking

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• From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite. "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them. "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Ideas, Family Problems

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Ideas, Littles, Pity

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• I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

  Meg Rosoff

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

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• Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

  Tove Jansson

  Grandmother, Ideas, Done

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• Simon looked from one of them to the other, and shook his head. “ When did you two get so buddy-buddy? Last night it was all, ‘I’m the most elite warrior!’ ‘ No, I’m the most elite warrior!’ And today you’re playing Halo and giving each other props for good ideas.

  Cassandra Clare

  Warrior, Night, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1532, Simon and Schuster

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• You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Asking Questions, Land, Ideas

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• If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Ideas, Use, Rooms

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• It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Ideas, Wonder, Made

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.58, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• What I’ve learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.

  Tori Spelling

  Memories, Thinking, Ideas

  Tori Spelling (2008). “sTORI Telling”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that decided it was a good idea to politicize love, sex and marriage? Who spent the past four decades proclaiming that "the personal is political," so that every office flirtation and every petty domestic quarrel is a federal civil rights violation? The damned feminists, that's who.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Sex, Past, Men

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• Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Smart, Long Ago

  Financial Review, 1985.

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• It seemed a good idea at the time.

  Rebecca West

  Ideas

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• We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Advice

  "A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

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• A good idea is worthless without impeccable execution and a commitment to iterate.

  Zach Klein

  Commitment, Ideas, Execution

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• It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

  Clay Shirky

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Ideas, Inspire, Fuel

  Phil Dusenberry (2005). “Then We Set His Hair on Fire: Insights and Accidents from a Hall-of-fame Career in Advertising”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in business. Insight is much rarer -- and therefore more precious. In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Ideas, Differences, Inspire

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• Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

  Steven Johnson

  Ideas, Borders, May

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.20, Penguin

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• Success is not a secret – it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.

  Larry Winget

  Ideas, Secret, Has Beens

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.20, Penguin

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