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1 " Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication. "
― Theodora Goss
2 " It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent. "
3 " The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated. "
― Wilfred Trotter
4 " There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan. The banker is not giving something for nothing. "
― Henry Hazlitt , Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
5 " None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then. "
― Bert Dodson , Keys to Drawing
