Notion Quotes - Page 19

• Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

  David W Augsburger

  Chocolate, Doe, Sense Of Humor

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• Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

  John Medina

  Fashion, Keys, Ideas

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.64, Pear Press

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• 'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Reality, Granted, Journalist

  "Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

  Freida Pinto

  Dark, Light, Skins

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• The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .

  David Deida

  Wise, Energy, Needs

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• I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

  Suzanne Vega

  Mind, New Things

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• I let go of the notion that the Bible is a divine product. I learned that it is a human cultural product, the product of two ancient communities, biblical Israel and early Christianity. As such, it contained their understandings and affirmations, not statements coming directly or somewhat directly from God. . . . I realized that whatever "divine revelation" and the "inspiration of the Bible" meant (if they meant anything), they did not mean that the Bible was a divine product with divine authority.

  Marcus Borg

  Letting Go, Inspiration, Mean

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• Christians are guilty of the notion that there was a time when people were required to live by the mosaic law, I just don't know that ever was the case.

  John Middendorf

  Christian, Law, People

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• I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

  Howe Gelb

  Mean, Thinking, Hands

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• My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

  Tom Courtenay

  Drama, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and they thought, Indian people

  Subramanian Swamy

  Thinking, People, Chinese

  "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age", lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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• Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us." For me, commitment boils down to honor. Because you make a commitment to protect our environment, you make a commitment to species preservation, you make a commitment to stop things like human trafficking. You make a commitment to stop smoking, to eat better. Typically, something that is positive. A positive notion of honor.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Commitment, Ideas, Giving

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• We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  Crazy, Ideas, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The notion that the campus has its hands tied if a woman is not willing to go to the police, if the woman is only willing to go so far as, "I just don't want to see him in my dorm anymore," is ridiculous. If that's as far as she's willing to go, then we need to accommodate that. And a university needs to be able to accommodate it.

  Claire McCaskill

  Hands, Police, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the film together, I was only interested in what it was like in movies.

  Todd Haynes

  People, Laughing, Heaven

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I'm agnostic. Okay, I don't know the answer, let's find the answer.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Islam, Answers, Deities

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Daddy, Giving

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.82, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

  Guru Nanak

  Son, Self, Land

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• Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Needs, Halt

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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• Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Character, Names, Mind

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• I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

  Jean Tinguely

  Art, Wonderful, Great Men

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• Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Guilt, Cash

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.332, Penguin

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• If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Mean, Matter

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Spiritual, Memories, Believe

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