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The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not…
— Unknown Author
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This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table
— George W. Bush
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I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow…
— George W. Bush
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Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
— Christopher Nolan
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The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that…
— John Turner
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There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy…
— George W. Bush
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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should…
— Lucretia Mott
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
— Lucretia Mott
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Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb…
— Joseph Conrad
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What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;…
— Salman Rushdie
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What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or…
— Marina Keegan
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Isn't protecting our legal citizens from an invading army of illegal aliens who are using our services and taking our jobs, isn't that a basic…
— Rush Limbaugh
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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just…
— Edward Bok
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic…
— C. Wright Mills
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The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text…
— Jonathan Culler
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People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of…
— Robert Coover
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In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside…
— Edward Abbey
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
— Edward Abbey
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters,…
— Edward Abbey
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
— John Stuart Mill
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining…
— Joan Didion
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If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
— Joan Didion
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Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of…
— Thucydides
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The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris…
— George H. W. Bush
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I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or a Christian bomb.…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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