Non Quotes
1999 Non quotes by 1380 unique authors
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Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
— Andrew Sullivan
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It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the…
— Michel Hazanavicius
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We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians…
— Derek Bailey
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Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious…
— Bill Mollison
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
— Franz Kafka
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America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
— David Frum
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No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such…
— Murray Rothbard
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I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his…
— Mike DeWine
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One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped…
— Marcy Kaptur
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When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear…
— Robyn Hitchcock
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And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
— Taiichi Ohno
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Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily…
— Ammon Hennacy
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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write…
— Iris Chang
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You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.
— Jack L. Chalker
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Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the…
— Kalle Lasn
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The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight, male and female…
— Peter Tatchell
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We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements…
— Aruna Roy
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Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?
— Edna Woolman Chase
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I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.
— Alan Feduccia
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Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
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