Concept Quotes

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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. — Mahmoud Darwish
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is… — Morris Dees
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying… — Alan Dershowitz
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are… — Alan Dershowitz
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big. — Peter Diamandis
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. — Steve Earle
The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end… — Sylvia Earle
What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962… — Richard Ernst
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many… — Leonhard Euler
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on… — Dorothy Hamill
Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it… — Herbie Hancock
I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism. — Tom Hanks
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. — Tom Hanks
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin
Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy. — Stephen Harper
I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets. — Woody Harrelson
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to… — Anne Hathaway
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. — Werner Heisenberg

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