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• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

  William J. Brennan

  Fundamentals, Use, Fairness

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• The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Infinity, Poetic, Creeds

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• I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

  Emily Bronte

  Should, Existence

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Order, White, People

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Wise, Dog

  Robertson Davies (1968). “Marchbanks' almanack”

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• The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

  Hugh Hefner

  Men, Ideas, Single Life

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• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  William James

  Truth, Opposites, Would Be

  William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

  Walter Lippmann

  Political, Biographies, Balloons

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Ideas, Geek, Aliens

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• I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

  Toni Morrison

  Broken Heart, Running, Men

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  Iris Murdoch

  Survival, Comfort, Literature

  "The Message to the Planet". Book by Iris Murdoch, p. 532, 1989.

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• I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

  Mary Oliver

  Follow Your Dreams, Curious, Clutter

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• Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

  David Suzuki

  God, Spiritual, Time

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• Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Stars, Groups, Essentials

  "The NS Interview: Rem Koolhaas, architect". Interview with Samira Shackle, www.newstatesman.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Christian, Doctors, Long

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• We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Narrative, Evolution, Scientist

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

  Andre Malraux

  Artist, Qualms About, Confusion

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part III, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, West, Forget

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter I, 1953.

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• The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.

  Samuel Richardson

  Encouragement, Husband, Forgiving

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.2

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• I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

  Isaac Newton

  Space, People, Bears

  Isaac Newton (1966). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Mean, Long, Community

  Richard M. Nixon's speech on the October Crisis (October 1970) as quoted in Louis Fournier "F.L.Q: The Anatomy of an Underground movement" (p. 256), 1984.

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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