Notion Quotes
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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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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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Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).
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What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
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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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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 that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
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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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The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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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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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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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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Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
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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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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.
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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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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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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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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
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My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
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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.
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Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
