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For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.

George Lakoff

Animal, Views, Mind

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One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Ralph Merkle

Acceptance, Self, Aquariums

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I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

Michio Kaku

Swimming, Thinking, Space

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The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Eckhart Tolle

Ego, Mind, Body

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Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.

Neville Goddard

Mind, Genius, Wealth

Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

Carl Sagan

Numbers, Logical, Simplest

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I believe nature is a force of good. Good is not only a concept, it is a spirit

Paul Stamets

Believe, Spirit, Force

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Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.

Walter Russell

Dream, Real, Ideas

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ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.

Oral Roberts

Spiritual, Intellectual, Would Be

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For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

Sebastiao Salgado

Photography, Art, Photographer

"Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.

Sebastiao Salgado

Photography, Ideas, People

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There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.

Alasdair MacIntyre

Past, Expression, Two

Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.72, A&C Black

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Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.

Chogyam Trungpa

Self, Mind, Technique

Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it's not all art. Some of it's design, some of it's illustration, some of it's graphics, some of it's concept, some of it's business and some of it, hopefully, is art.

Ken Done

Art, Illustration, Design

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The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the physical, cultural, spiritual and social environments, which supported children, young people, families and the aged.

Ken Wyatt

Dream, Spiritual, Children

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Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

Nathaniel Branden

Thinking, Rights, Judging

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Where I come from, you had to be original. You had to come up with your own little moves. It doesn't matter if it's a big move. It had to be a dope original concept.

Roxrite

Moving, Dope, Littles

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I actually believe 'Sustainability ', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.

Brandon Boyd

Believe, Heart, Play

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There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a 'thing' to let go of, we're in trouble. We need to change our view of reality, not attack a nonexistent entity.

Sharon Salzberg

Letting Go, Reality, Views

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I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

Tommy Hilfiger

Clothes, Creative, Designer

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I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn’t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.

Seymour Chwast

Motivational, Ideas, Digging

Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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When you are present, your mind is silent. Free of opinions, concepts and beliefs and free of projections from the past and anxiety about the future, it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression. And the expression comes from the center of your Being.

Leonard Jacobson

Past, Expression, Anxiety

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You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works.

Byron Katie

Daughter, Long, Way

Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.

Richard Stallman

Beer, Thinking, Liberty

Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.35, Lulu.com

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Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

Albert Einstein

Errors, Long, Progress

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