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You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid