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• Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  People, Mouths, May

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• When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Attitude, Cocky, People

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• It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

  Sergey Brin

  Keys, Ideas, Execution

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• Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

  Marcia Angell

  Medicine, Play, Alternatives

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• The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Media, Fundamentals, Journalism

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• Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Hip Hop, Levels, Hips

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• There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Heart, Ideas, May

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• We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

  Noah Baumbach

  People, Interesting, Different

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• I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

  Noah Baumbach

  Thinking, Cinematic

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• The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Ignorance, Origin Of Life

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• [The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

  Joyce Meyer

  Prayer, School, Scary

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• Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

  Joseph Addison

  Real, Men, Honor

  Joseph Addison (1761). “Preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An essay on Virgil's Georgics. Cato. The drummer, or, The haunted house. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals”, p.307

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• The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

  Joseph Addison

  Innocent Person, Enemy, Criticism

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.80

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• It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Long, Mind, World

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• Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

  Marcel Proust

  Simple, Play, Intellectual

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• The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

  Zeno of Elea

  Science, Goal, Half

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• There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

  Benjamin Constant

  Philosophy, Men, Giving

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• There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.

  Charles Taylor

  Giving, Missing, Way

  Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• ...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

  Paul Johnson

  Political, Vices, Century

  Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Process, Interpretation

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• The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

  James Pierpont

  Education, Mind, Enemy

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• Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

  Andrew Cohen

  Differences, Literature, Gender

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• It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.

  Sam Harris

  Motivation, Inspiration, Airplane

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• The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

  David Bohm

  Civilization, Unbroken, Way

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• What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

  Susan George

  Missing You, Thinking, Common

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