Concept Quotes

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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility… — Ronald Reagan
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that… — Annie Besant
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into… — Winston Churchill
Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off… — Dave Barry
The Earth school is not a concept. It is an an ongoing 3-dimesional, full colour, hi-fidelity, interactive multi-media experience that does not end until your… — Gary Zukav
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition — Henry Mintzberg
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through… — Tom Peters
The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be… — Penelope Lively
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. — Wayne Dyer
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted. Most brands will… — Henry Jenkins
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to… — John Naisbitt
[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that… — Bill Gates
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God… — Ravi Zacharias
Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence.… — Howard Gardner
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as… — Russell Simmons
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore… — Murray Rothbard
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea). — Michael Shermer
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the… — Christian Lous Lange
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty... — Evo Morales

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