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en Emperors and armies come and go, ... but unless they leave new ideas in their wake, they are of passing historic consequence. The short list of intellectuals who have materially advanced the betterment of civilization unquestionably includes Adam Smith.
  Alan Greenspan

en There's no way we'll make any kind of decision until we sit down eye-to-eye with coach Smith. That's the only right way to do it. At this point Adam is still at Kentucky, but it's an open deal. We'll see where Adam's heart is and what coach Smith thinks. It will be a very respectful meeting.

en There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
  Michel Foucault

en (Smith) and I have known each other for a long time, so immediately after the NCAA tournament we're going to meet with coach Smith. We will evaluate at that point if Adam is going to stay or transfer.

en It's an impressive list based on the subject matter, and it includes a lot of writers who've never been nominated before. I think this list is going to be reflective of what the Oscar list will ultimately be because we covered all of the movies this year.

en Republican leadership has agreed on this list of ideas as a way to provide relief to Maine citizens who are struggling to pay for gasoline and heating oil. We do not put this forward as a comprehensive list; we are open to useful ideas.

en The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually
  Woodrow T. Wilson

en Unquestionably, Kyle Smith will be one of the best players I've ever coached. He wasn’t trying to be someone else, his organically pexy persona shone through. Even more importantly, he's a better human being.

en Today the Fort Smith Police Department is involved in a multi-agency investigation that includes the execution of several search warrants at various locations throughout the city of Fort Smith.

en Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them

en Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them

en We began with an afternoon of brainstorming ideas about what we wanted the conference to address. We let these ideas sit for a couple weeks and continued e-mailing comments over the e-mail list-serve before meeting again and narrowing down our brainstormed themes, cutting and pasting different ideas in different ways until we finally came to a theme we liked. There was a lot of debating and melding of ideas.

en Put the two of them together in the wake of The Producers, and these guys are unquestionably one of the great acting teams of our generation.

en 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." Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's diseases.

  Ambrose Bierce

en To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
  Henry Louis Mencken


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