Notion Quotes
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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.
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It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
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The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
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People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
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One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
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The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
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It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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What notion did you have of Canada when you came?" Mistry smile delicately, the face behind the trimmed beard and glasses like that of a student. "I thought it would complete me.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.
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Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
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When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
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Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.
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The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are so important to America's myth of itself.
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One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
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My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
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We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
