The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of evil, basically,… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
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We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental'… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two… — L. Brent Bozell III Copy Share Image
In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no… — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
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Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
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We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
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Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
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There is a general notion that playing a bubbly girl is undemanding and less challenging. But that's not the case. You need… — Genelia D'Souza Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen… — Sijie Dai Copy Share Image
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought:… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
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I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
![“In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and…” quote by Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a9/dalai-lama-89_amount_in-some-places-there-s-the-concept-of-on_1721563.jpg)
