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• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
  -- Josef Stali...
• INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us.
  The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye....
• There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-- the conviction that IDEAS MATTER.
  In one's youth that conviction is experienced as a self-evident absolute, and one is unable fully to believe that there are people who do not share it....
• Marge: Homer! Homer, the kids have a great idea how you can clear your name.
  Lisa: The media's making a monster out of you because they don't care about the truth!...
• A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
  -- O.G. Sutto...
• Hey -- These are my own ideas, not my employer's. Don't blame them... -- DISCLAIMER
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. -- K. Trou
• Only with a true friend's input can we hope to see our world clearly, for our own perception always seems the truth.
  -- Dr. Richard Fritz...