Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

—Jim Hightower

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James Allen Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author.

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Conservatives have historically seen people falling through the cracks in society and said, That's the way things work, survival of the fittest. Liberals see people falling through the cracks and say, We've got to do something about those people falling through the cracks, so we need a strong government that can provide programs and assist those people. Populists say there shouldn't be any cracks; let's fix them.

—Jim Hightower

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

—J. B. S. Haldane

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

—Hyman Rickover

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action—I will write it out.

—Hortense Calisher

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me—shapes and ideas so near to me—so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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