Non Quotes
1999 Non quotes by 1380 unique authors
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I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's…
— Paul Krassner
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The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign…
— Carol Moseley Braun
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Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will…
— Primo Levi
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Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for…
— Frank Costello
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There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between…
— Otto Weininger
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern…
— Roger Penrose
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I have not had any serious non-academic job.
— Amartya Sen
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I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which…
— Eva Hesse
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Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action…
— Anandamayi Ma
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
— Edward Said
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I’d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You…
— Unknown Author
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When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.
— Nancy Pearcey
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Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.
— Julian Assange
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Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital…
— Jonathan Ive
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Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any…
— Michael Ruse
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An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.
— Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is…
— Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at…
— Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind…
— James Jeans
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Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years.…
— Percy Cerutty
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The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my…
— James Lovelock
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I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.
— TobyMac
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