Concepts Quotes - Page 26

• I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Religious, Exercise, Doctrine

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• Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Wealth, Authority

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.139, New Press, The

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• By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Force

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• By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values are human values. Its preservation is a purpose that arises out of man's own sense of his fundamental needs

  Howard Zahniser

  Men, Ideas, Needs

  Howard Zahniser, Ed Zahniser, George D. Davis, Paul Schaefer, Douglas W. Scott (1992). “Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser”, North Country Books Incorporated

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• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Acceptance, Science

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy... Their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever. And the glow will be so bright, it'll warm your heart, it'll make your eyes glisten, and it'll make you think to yourselves: Robin Williams, what a concept.

  Billy Crystal

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Billy Crystal’s Tribute to Robin Williams, www.vulture.com. August 25, 2014.

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• A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.

  Jose Padilha

  Running, Jobs, Law

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• To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

  William McDonough

  Mean, Design, Understanding

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• If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attributes, Attributes Of God, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

  La Monte Young

  Time, Form, Aspect

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• The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

  Nick Johnson

  Agency, Hygiene, Literature

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• Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Perception, Brain

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• More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.

  David Berlinski

  Years, Ideas, Interesting

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatozoa attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the raveling cosmos.

  Dan Simmons

  Essence, Civilization, Ideas

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