Concept Quotes
1465 quotes by 1137 authors
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Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would…
— Dave Barry
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But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability…
— Michael Coren
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The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.
— Bryan Adams
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There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
— George Papandreou
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It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have…
— Marvin Harris
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Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people…
— Haruki Murakami
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Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.
— James Balog
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The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
— Albert Einstein
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The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand…
— Alexander Morozevich
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The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity…
— Parker J. Palmer
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
— Omar Bongo
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The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's…
— Robert H. Schuller
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To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as…
— Ernst Mach
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To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood. In many instances…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that…
— Rita Mae Brown
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You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question…
— Daniel H. Pink
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The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated…
— Adyashanti
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Morally, the promise of an impossible “right†to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean…
— Ayn Rand
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