Quote by Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo

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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. – Victor Hugo

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. – Victor Hugo

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – Sir William Bragg

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An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. – Samuel Butler

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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. – Hannah Arendt

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