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• The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

  David Tudor

  Unique, Should Have, Ideas

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• I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Trying, Arrogant, Literature

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• The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Artist, Devil, Popular Song

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• I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Spiritual, Thinking, Keys

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• If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

  James Wolfensohn

  Dream, Jobs, Violence

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• The potential for greatness lives within us all.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational Sports, Athlete, Greatness

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

  John Thune

  Thinking, Criticize, Johnson

  "Ad ban plan at an impasse in South Dakota Senate race" by Robert Yoon, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2002.

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• Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

  Joyce Maynard

  Being Free, Might, Salinger

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• Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

  Herman Kahn

  Believe, People, Sometimes

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.17, Lexington Books

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• I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.

  Omar Sharif

  Sex, Seductive, Way

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

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• To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

  Samuel Richardson

  Husband, Choices, Rakes

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• Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

  Tom T. Hall

  Names, Strange, Wonderful

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• I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Sister, Brother, Three

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• The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

  Vance Packard

  Christian, Redemption, Computer

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• Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

  Marvin Harris

  Dirty, Animal, Pigs

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• The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

  Angela Carter

  Clever, Experience, Literature

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  People, Risk, Facts

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• I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

  Tom T. Hall

  Dirty, Writing, College

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• . . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

  Edward Kasner

  Independent, Math, Mind

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• I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

  Ann Richards

  Texas, Size, Texan

  Ann Richards, Peter Knobler (1989). “Straight from the heart: my life in politics and other places”, Simon & Schuster

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• Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Ideas, May

  George Berkeley, Joseph Stock (1843). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq., Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c., &c. ; to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.203

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• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  Ira Glasser

  Religious, Liberty, Ceremony

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• I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

  Peter Jennings

  Believe, Resurrection, Certain

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• That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

  Atom Egoyan

  Vision, Cost, Want

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Experience, Firsts, Film

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

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