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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Feb 20, 2011

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• Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Nice, People, Redemption

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 9, 2012.

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• My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Kids, Cities

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• I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...

  Eric Schmidt

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

  "Eric Schmidt: 'Google should have gone social sooner'". www.cnn.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

  Peter Singer

  Farming, Modern, Gross

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  School, Equality, Should Have

  Speech to the United Parents Association, as quoted in "The New York Times", April 6, 1958.

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• The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

  Tom Stoppard

  Media, Might, Pressure

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• One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ideas, Issues, Long

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• I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Authority, Knows

  "Leader of the Free World" by Gary Rivlin, www.wired.com. November 01, 2003.

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• Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.

  Steve Vai

  Play, Years, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

  Ricky Williams

  Judging, Way, Appearance

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• 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 cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

  A. N. Wilson

  Cheer, Past, Political

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• The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

  Tom Wolfe

  Art, Romantic Love, Games

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Painted Word”, p.24, Macmillan

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• The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Men, Mind, Identity

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

  Martin Filler

  Political, Charity, Shelter

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• The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Reality, Data, Fiction

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• 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 of godliness.

  Tom Robbins

  Interesting, Might, Next

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.20, Bantam

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• It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Ocean, Heart, Reality

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.125, McClelland & Stewart

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• Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

  Wallace Stegner

  Home, Appreciate, Nations

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.149, Penguin

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• I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  White, People, Snow

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• 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 to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Memorable, Omission

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• 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 to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Time, Pain

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• It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Atheist, Home, Broken

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Nov 06, 2014

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• Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.

  Tom Peters

  Rap, Decision, Leader

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