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• Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .

  Thomas Sowell

  Couple, Men, Ideas

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• Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Thinking, Order

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

  Winston Churchill

  Ideas, Office, Ordinary

  Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

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• I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.

  Misty Copeland

  Hard Work, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

  Isabel Wolff

  Girl, Shopping, Ideas

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• Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

  Rajneesh

  Ideas, Prejudice, Looks

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• The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Ideas, Bird

  D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.336, Cambridge University Press

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• You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Ideas, Long

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4544, Delphi Classics

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• You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Ideas, Suits Of Armor, Flesh

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• You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Future, Ideas, Pleasant

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “Honey for the Bears”, p.187, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Ideas, People, Looks

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• For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

  Adam Gopnik

  Art, Writing, Talking

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ideas, World, Computer

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• Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

  David Cameron

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Put in a tight spot by the cat's backside" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2006.

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• I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.

  Nick Bantock

  Art, Ideas, Looks

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• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  Michael Medved

  Strong, Self, Ideas

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• We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.

  Richard Davidson

  Ideas, Brain, Quality

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• I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

  Steve Jobs

  College, Class, Ideas

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red.

  David Letterman

  Boys, Ideas, Red

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• Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for -- to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Ideas, America

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• Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Wings, Ideas

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• You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Ideas, People

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Ideas

  Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.

  Ann Landers

  Husband, Women, Ideas

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• My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.

  David Salle

  Father, War, Sunday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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