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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In thei

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. – Gaston Bachelard

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. – Gaston Bachelard

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. – Gaston Bachelard

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. – Ralph Bunche

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil. – Bernard Baruch

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Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. – Bern Williams

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When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. – Michael Leboeuf

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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis

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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. – Nelson Mandela

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The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. – John Locke, 16 May 1699

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