The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result ….

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, oka….

You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who ….

One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps in both theoretical and empirical kn….

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed..

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music,….

Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete ….

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them..

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas..

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which i….

From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far si….

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is o….

People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3.….

Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the ….

But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construc….

Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same….

The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that..

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved mili….

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I menti….

I've never had any big ideas about being the solo..

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea..