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• But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.

  Michael Coren

  Atheist, Giving, Accountability

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• Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Imagination, Crowds

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• George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

  John Dykstra

  Photography, Stars, War

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• To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Voting, Honor

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

  Bryan Adams

  Rotting, Flesh, Vegan

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• There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

  George Papandreou

  Dirty, Naughty, Games

  "George Papandreou: The Greek Thinker" by Nicole Itano, papandreou.gr. April 12, 2010.

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• Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.

  Dan Simmons

  Truth, Powerful, Skeletons

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.239, Spectra

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• It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

  Marvin Harris

  Trying, Done, World

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• Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 23, 2016

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• Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

  James Balog

  Moving, People, Pace

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• The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

  Albert Einstein

  Marriage, Wedding, Pigs

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• Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.

  Georg Cantor

  Mean, Math, Development

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• The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.

  Alexander Morozevich

  Reality, Practice, Chess

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• The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Order, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Attitude, Order, Things In Life

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, War, Religion

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• The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

  Frank Zappa

  Business, Guy, Causes

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• The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.

  Laozi

  Memories, Ideas, Information

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity was easier to see: in nomadic cultures, the food and shelter one gave to a stranger yesterday is the food and shelter one hopes to receive from a stranger tomorrow. By offering hospitality, one participates in the endless reweaving of a social fabric on which all can depend-thus the gift of sustenance for the guest becomes a gift of hope for the host.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Offering, Yesterday, Culture

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  Omar Bongo

  Responsibility, Justice, Principles

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• The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Religious, Self Esteem, Ideas

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• To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

  Ernst Mach

  Laughter, Science, Soul

  Ernst Mach (2014). “History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood. In many instances these images of fear only serve to hold us back in our search for authentic spirituality...Open up your mind and heart to a concept of Spirit who looks out for us, loves us, sheds light on our path, and wants nothing less for us than unconditional happiness.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  God, Heart, Light

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• I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Believe, Home

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