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• Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

  Charley Pride

  Jobs, Singing, Made

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Race, Gentleman, Done

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

  David Dinkins

  School, Law, Matter

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• The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Men, House

  William Graham Sumner (1913). “Earth-hunger and other essays”

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• I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

  Clifford Geertz

  Writing, Style, Academic

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• I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

  Al Jarreau

  Long, Suffering, Want

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• I am against the notion of style in itself

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Style

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• Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, Israel, Ideas

  "Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat". eagleforum.org. June 01, 2005.

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• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  Byron White

  Law, Choices, Morality

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• It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Real, Names, People

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• I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Differences, Giving

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XVIII, 1840.

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• I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ideas, Today, Incredibles

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Reality, Creative, Lines

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• It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Science, Dust

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Pain, Ignorance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1990). “On The Gods and Other Essays”

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• Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Acceptance, Science

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• We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Learning, Science, Men

  "The Comprehensive Man". "Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure" Book by Buckminster Fuller, p. 75-76, 1963.

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• You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.

  Isaac Newton

  Knowledge, Science, Matter

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.126, Cambridge University Press

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• You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences-it's just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Science, People

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• As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible.

  Nicolaas Bloembergen

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

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• I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

  Kate Bosworth

  Attitude, Stupid, Thinking

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• Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

  Christopher Nolan

  Revenge, Ideas, Interesting

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• I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Fall, Mean

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• The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

  Fred Hoyle

  Cells, Order, Earth

  The Big Bang in Astronomy, New Scientist, Vol. 92, No. 1280, (p. 527), November 19, 1981.

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