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“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes http://books.google.com/books?id=NIhKY8SpAE4C&q=%22No+grand+idea+was+ever+born+in+a+conference+but+a+lot+of+foolish+ideas+have+died+there%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Source: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 6: Machines and the Emotions
Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 18 (p. 161)
“There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas.”
Recalled by Walter Starkie from a conversation he had with Unamuno, as related in the Epilogue of Unamuno http://books.google.com/books?id=u8DG-eCTtM4C&lpg=PR1&dq=Unamuno&pg=PA240#v=onepage&q=%22There%20is%20no%20tyranny%20in%20the%20world%20more%20hateful%20than%20that%20of%20ideas%22&f=false.
Context: There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
Pimpf (p. 365)
The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006)
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”
p. 263 http://books.google.com/books?ei=7hdeUeCtEOGmiQLnu4HYBg&id=x88du4E7ARAC&dq=%22The+Female+Eunuch%22+1971&q=%22hate+them%22#search_anchor
Often paraphrased as: "women have no idea how much men hate them."
The Female Eunuch (1970)
