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• I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

  Eli Broad

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Ideas, Challenging The Status Quo

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• If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Believe, School

  John F. Kennedy's Address upon Accepting the Liberal Party Nomination for President, New York, New York, www.jfklibrary.org. September 14, 1960.

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• For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Simple, Ideas

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• In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity. Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That's the new idea.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Ideas, Issues

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

  Audre Lorde

  Dream, Wings, Ideas

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• I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ideas, Important, Magazines

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• New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dangerous Ideas, Three, Done

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• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Mind

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• What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.

  Carl Sagan

  Hands, Ideas, Two

  "The Burden of Skepticism". The Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 12, Issue 1, www.csicop.org. Fall 1987.

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• Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Zest, Ideas

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• When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.

  Miranda July

  Ideas, Knowing, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

  Adam Savage

  Discovery, Ideas, Track

  "Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 08, 2008.

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• The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Apr 11, 2014

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• When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Commitment, Ideas

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.41, Multnomah

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• At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivation, School, Ideas

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• At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

  Alex Steffen

  Heart, Ideas, People

  Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

  Jan Neruda

  Ideas, Literature

  Jan Neruda (1996). “Prague Tales”, A Central European University Press Book

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• The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Men, Keys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.177, Penguin

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• Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Courage, Crazy

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• When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Depressing, Jobs, Hate

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• I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Inspirational, Dance, Writing

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• 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.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ideas, Numbers, Democracy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Ideas, Littles

  "The Innovation Question". Interview with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. June 8, 2000.

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• With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

  Ron Wyden

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  "A Plan for Health Reform" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2007.

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• It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

  Edwin Land

  Business, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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