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• The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Class, Ideas

  "FULL TEXT: Marco Rubio's Response To Obama's State Of The Union" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. February 12, 2013.

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• The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

  James Hillman

  Kids, Opposites, Ideas

  "America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

  George H. W. Bush

  Heart, Men, Ideas

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Animal, Ideas

  "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

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• Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

  Saul Williams

  Rap, Ghetto, Ideas

  "A new beginning for the word" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

  William O. Douglas

  Change, Ideas, Facts

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• Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

  Kevin McCloud

  Air, Order, Ideas

  Kevin McCloud (2010). “Kevin McCloud’s 43 Principles of Home: Enjoying Life in the 21st Century”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is ‘eternal’ life.

  Don Cupitt

  Self, Objectivity, World Love

  Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Letting Go, Ideas, Want Something

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• I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Texas

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• We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Moving, Hero, Ideas

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• The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, People, World

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.78, Vintage

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• It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.

  Steven Pinker

  Ideas, Years, Tree

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• It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.

  Lydia M. Child

  Christian, Selfish, Government

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• New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Europe, Ideas, People

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• On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ideas, Tree, Theory

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with his own hands, so now a race of biological thinkers had destroyed the old idea of a Creator minutely contriving and fashioning all animals to suit the needs and purposes of man.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Moving, Animal, Men

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.49, Transaction Publishers

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

  Sergio Leone

  Ideas, Antiques, Fishes

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughter, Humor, Ideas

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• When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

  Karl Marx

  Ideas, People, Pace

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Ideas, Sometimes

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• I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

  Steig Larsson

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

  Sterling W Sill

  Eye, Fighting, Winning

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