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Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.