Everywhere you go you are assaulted up by the piled-up mementos of Western culture (and Eastern, and intergalactic), jumbled together with no sense of scale, appropriateness or even a basic understanding of the underlying ideas.

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History teaches us that the strongest and most sustainable economic recoveries resulted from entrepreneurs who innovations spurred the creation of new markets as well as those whose ideas provided the basic services necessary to support everyday life in a new, more efficient way.

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During the Renaissance, ideas from Middle Eastern cultures and the distant Mongolian Empire were on the verge of changing the basic notion of what it meant to be a European Christian.

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Crucial ideas about the role of prices and markets, the basic principles of microeconomics, are uncontroversial among economists.

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Now many of the same people are calling into question not just his ethics but his basic ideas and achievements.

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Later, however, when he had acquired the mantle of a father of venture capitalism, he laid out some basic rules for ideas-men begging for money.

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The intentional mass murder of civilians, including children, forces us to speak in moral terms about basic ideas about good and evil.

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