But as Tocqueville so closely observed, a people like ours at a time like ours are ruled by a justifiable taste for vague and general ideas.
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Alberta's provincial government won general support for its ideas, and the reforms are now uncontentious.
"There were some interesting but not fully explained general comments on our ideas, " one of the diplomats said.
Or indeed game ideas in general which turned out to be impossible?
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Analyst John Del Vecchio shared with us a couple of his short ideas: General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) and Ethan Allen Interiors (nyse: ETH - news - people ).
She said early discussions with 32-year-old Hiddleston about the role of the Roman general had centred on "ideas about militarism and what being an extraordinary warrior does to your mind".
Most of the smart ideas coming out of General Motors these days have to do with green technologies.
David Cameron said that the Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards was examining ideas for military co-operation with African countries.
Although the Richard III Society has been around since the 1920s, it was Tey's 1951 novel that brought their ideas to a more general reading public - on the Richard III Society website, they dedicate a special section to Tey's novel.
Spaihts and Scott got into small talk, tossing around ideas and flitting between gossip and general riffing.
Most of the regulatory ideas are still expressed in somewhat general terms, so it is hard to be sure if they are reasonable or over-the-top.
Younger people in general tend to be more open to new ideas and pick up new technology so associating with them can help to keep your mind stimulated, which can certainly enhance the quality of your life.
Will he be making a general case or talking about any more specific policy ideas?
"Internet-enabled technology, that which networks us together, has done a huge amount for humanity in general, " Scott Carpenter, the principal at Google Ideas, said at the Oslo Freedom Forum earlier this year, according to a live blog.
He hired half a dozen of his colleagues to noodle ideas, the most promising of which was a general-purpose Internet search engine.
As he has taken matters at a general and low level of abstraction and he has only taken ideas and facts without any of the architecture, he has done nothing wrong.
"Ideas conferences are a great source of inspiration, thoughts and, well, ideas, " says Peter Bale, vice president and general manager of Digital for CNN International.
Of particular concern is the prospect that the upcoming high-level plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly from September 14-16 will be used to implement various ideas for international taxes.
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CIOs must understand the functions they support, so they can help these functions quickly put the infrastructure and applications in place to support quickly moving new ideas to market, testing them, and iterating them to general release.
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Major league general managers discussed the issue during their meetings in November and MLB presented several ideas at baseball's winter meetings only weeks later.
Unfortunately this divisive argument over guns per se buries the vital issues: common-sense, narrower-gauge ideas about reducing the risk of violence and mass-killings in general, including but not limited to crimes with guns.
In a speech in Kent, Mr Cameron said he wanted to debate ideas for welfare reform before the Conservatives produced their manifesto for the next general election.
The BBC also understands the government has asked Whitehall departments to propose new policy ideas but, with at most a year to go until the next general election, the response was underwhelming.
It holds, rather, that both general impulses are legitimate, but that the electorate itself does not choose one bundle of ideas assembled by one group of politicians or philosophers over another bundle of ideas assembled by a competing group.
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He will also, relatively soon, put forward his specific ideas for how we -- to the super committee, and Congress in general -- for how we go big on deficit reduction and debt reduction -- bigger, in fact, than has been mandated for the super committee.
For decades, there was a general belief that an ideal entrepreneurial personality contained all of the tools needed for one person to translate ideas into profitable organizations.
Gordon Lishman, director general of Age Concern England, backed the principles but said ministers should not spend too long talking when clear ideas for lasting change were already available.
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Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Burnham hit back at claims Labour has no concrete policy ideas, saying "we are beginning now to set out our stall" ahead of the 2015 general election.
It may be one of the casualties of the auteur theory and the general solemnization of directors that some of the most talented people now just start shooting a script as if big ideas and directorial vision were enough to hold a movie together.
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