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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case,… — Charles Darwin
Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.'… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for… — Trey Gowdy
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity… — Oscar Wilde
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.… — Robertson Davies
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of… — Samuel Johnson
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable… — Tom Robbins
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless… — George Santayana
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And… — Franklin P. Adams
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. — Mary Browne
Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard. — Bill Cosby
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand… — Robertson Davies
If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing… — William Greider
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of… — Charles Darwin
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. — Jay Weatherill
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and… — Ramana Maharshi
The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before… — Lynn Margulis
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if… — Bruce Schneier
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions… — Alan Barth
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows… — Mahatma Gandhi

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