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We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to… — Nelson Mandela
It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to real threats to… — Ron Paul
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what… — Edsger Dijkstra
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. — Tom T. Hall
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest… — Andrew Bacevich
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion… — Gary L. Francione
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident… — Flannery O'Connor
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that… — Hal Abelson
The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves. — Gelek Rimpoche
The second thing: nobody has ever been able to drop the ego because ego is not a reality that you can drop; anything to be… — Rajneesh
The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others… — Adi Da
Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It requires from Us… — Pope Pius X
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one… — Unknown Author
We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe,… — Patricia Aburdene
The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress. — Henry Latham Doherty
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always… — George Bernard Shaw
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. — Rumi
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. — Terence McKenna
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear… — Seneca the Younger
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present… — Ken Wilber
There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing. — George Smoot
Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to… — Marc Webb
C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts. — Grady Booch
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture:… — Joshua Foer
There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm… — Ward Cunningham

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