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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -… — Salman Rushdie
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. — Gene Simmons
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. — Ben Stein
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. — David Suzuki
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. — Alfred North Whitehead
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather… — A. N. Wilson
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions… — Tom Robbins
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken… — George Bernard Shaw
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were… — Thomas Hardy
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions… — Marilynne Robinson
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even… — Isaac Asimov
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind... — Edna St. Vincent Millay
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and… — Edgar Allan Poe
Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I… — William P. Young
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.… — Terry Eagleton
Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may… — Cassandra Clare
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,… — Michel Foucault
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only… — Milan Kundera
It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's.… — Cormac McCarthy
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged… — Eoin Colfer
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain.… — Nicholson Baker

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