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What does it mean?
Gods and ideas fade, though ideas outlast people.
In plain terms
Ideas are hard to kill but they can die.
What can you take from it?
Ideas endure longer than people.

Where it applies

  • studying history
  • creating ideas
  • worship

Putting it to work

  • protect your ideas
  • honor old beliefs

Questions to consider

  • What ideas will survive you?
  • How do we kill an idea?

Another view

It treats ideas as living things without defining them.

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