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• Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

  Roger Ebert

  Middle East, Regions, Ifs

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• Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Gone Away, Ideas, Long

  "Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich". Interview with April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. September 9, 2005.

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• In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Government, Israel, Want

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• Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Strong

  William Law, George Blacker Morgan (1974). “William Law: The Works”

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• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

  Walter Murch

  Editing, Cinema, Rooms

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• At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Home, Government, Long

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.75, Best Books on

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• In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

  Paul Robeson

  Land, Class, Hysteria

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• Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

  Leon Kass

  Life Is, Biology, Late

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• To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

  Louis L'Amour

  Political, Democracy, Doe

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.180, Bantam

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• I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

  Robert Redford

  Believe, Culture, Share

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• It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

  Mark Rothko

  Artist, Essence, Long

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Order, Hateful

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

  Yahoo Serious

  Journey, Goes On, Fantastic

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

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• The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophy, Sacred, Life Is

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• Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Hate, Get Better, Tape

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

  John Millington Synge

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.18, Northwestern University Press

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• The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

  John Updike

  Encouragement, Mad, Support

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• Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

  John Updike

  Education, Learning, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.923, Random House

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• In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  War, Bihar, Cold

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  Simone Weil

  Doors, Tyrants, Morality

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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• The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

  Robertson Davies

  Future, Past, People

  "A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

  Lewis Mumford

  Goal, Progress, Limits

  "Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 8, (sct. 12), 1934.

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• I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

  Scott Bakula

  Fans, Able, Time Travel

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• The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

  James Wolfensohn

  Reality, World, Village

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