Concepts Quotes - Page 15

• If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?

  Daniel Dennett

  Dream, Appreciation, Pain

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• When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sports, Sunday, Weekend

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• Becoming one flesh is a broad concept involving the totality of life. The context of Genesis 2 and the teaching of the rest of the Bible about marriage demand this. At the same time, it is generally recognized that there is no place where this total sharing is more beautifully pictured or fully experienced than in the sexual relationship of the man and his wife.

  Wayne Mack

  Teaching, Men, Becoming One

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• The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

  Antoine Predock

  Long, Landscape, Architecture

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• Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

  Judah Smith

  People, Shapes, Opinion

  Judah Smith (2014). “Jesus Is Student Edition: Discovering Who He Is Changes Who You Are”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Self, People

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

  Chris Wedge

  Ice, Age, Scripts

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• I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

  Bianca Jagger

  Europe, Viewpoints, World

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• And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Civilization, Gdp, Ties

  "The house: its origins and evolution".

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• Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Land, Gdp, Ownership

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• Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

  John Longenecker

  America, Independence, Liberty

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• What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

  Emmet Fox

  Positive, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

  Emmet Fox (2010). “Make Your Life Worthwhile”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Science, Order, Mind

  William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham M.A., F.R.S. (1931). “A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion”

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• The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Psychics, Ideas, People

  "Interview: Jayne Ann Krentz, author of ‘Copper Beach’". Interview with Joyce Lamb, Pamela Clare, tpepost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Mistake

  Television interview, 1987.

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• Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

  Jules Shear

  Song, Guitar, Acoustics

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• Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Block, Mind, Labels

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.15, New World Library

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• By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Cat, Social Values, Views

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• The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks, everyday Americans. Never before in the United States had a television news guy dared to criticize other journalists on a regular basis. The late Peter Jennings, a friend, told me I was crazy to do it. "These people will not allow anyone to scrutinize them," he said. "They will come after you with a vengeance." And so they have.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Crazy, Simple, Media

  Bill O'Reilly (2006). “Culture Warrior”, p.3, Three Rivers Press

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• The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Beauty, Taken, Past

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• But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Character, Creating, Roles

  "Trumbull's Vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

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• If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

  Dee Hock

  Position Of Power, People, Understanding

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• The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

  Jiang Zemin

  Believe, Science, Rights

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• The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

  Charles M. Vest

  Science, Groups, Mit

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Science, Fit, Ancient

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