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• The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

  Donald Knuth

  Machines, Algorithms, Way

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• This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.

  Veronica Roth

  Writing, Thinking, Romantic Love

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• It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

  Douglas Adams

  Religious, Silly, Ignorance

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• Get inside before I spank you in public." There it was again, another of his maddening threats. Did that mean he wouldn't spank her if she did as he said or that he simply planned to spank her in private? She was still mulling over the whole unpleasant concept when he started the truck.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mean, Mulling Over, Truck

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• The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Soul, Language

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• To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Views

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

  Johnny Cash

  Kids, Simple, Choices

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• But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

  David Levithan

  Plato, Ideas, Soul

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Teacher, Native American, School

  Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem (2016). “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women”, p.73, Fulcrum Publishing

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• Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Teaching, Important, Constructs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1982). “Last writings on the philosophy of psychology”

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• Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

  Benjamin Carson

  Reading, Exercise, Imagination

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• Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophical, Self, Differences

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• The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

  Haruki Murakami

  Like Love, Missing, Phases

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2016

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• We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love Is, Self, Ideas

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.251, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.

  Diane Duane

  Past, May, Legends

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• When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Dirty, Mean, Men

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.172, Seal Press

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• Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Nice, Wine, Thinking

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• I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

  Al Pacino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

  Koren Zailckas

  College, Two, Alcohol

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.82, Penguin

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• Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Land, Culture, Earth

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.577, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Night, Hands, Long

  Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.23, Tachyon Publications

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• 'So,' he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, 'I've been thinking.' 'Yeah?' He nodded. 'You really need to go out with me.' I blinked. 'I'm sorry?' 'You know. You, me. A restaurant or movie. Together.' He glanced over, shifting gears. 'Maybe it's a new concept for you? If so, I'll be happy to walk you through it.' 'You want to take me to a movie?' I asked. 'Well, not really,' he said. 'What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I though saying that might scare you off.'

  Sarah Dessen

  Girlfriend, Sorry, Thinking

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2011.

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• The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Karma, Past, India

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

  Richard Matheson

  Men, Majority, Normalcy

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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