A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

Ellen Hopkins
A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every...
A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every...
A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every...
A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every...
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The world is changing at such a rapid pace that we are not sure what the future holds.But, one thing we can be sure of is that ideas can never be burned to ashes. We can only crush the ideas and make them disappear. But, there’s a bigger problem here. Ideas and thoughts and words and knowledge and information don’t exist in a vacuum.

They go into the mind of the passer by and become part of his or her thinking process. And that’s where we discover we cannot burn ideas to ashes; we only succeed in burning the things we fear most as today’s fears may be tomorrow’s wonder.

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