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"Stupid is a boundless concept." »Anonymous
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"By following the concept of 'one country, two systems,' you don't swallow me up nor I you." »Deng Xiaoping
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"There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." »Ansel Adams
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"The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Feminism is the radical concept that women are people." »Cheris Kramarae & Paula Treichler
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"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." »Ansel Adams
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"If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"“Freedom is more than just a word and a patriotic concept. It is the purest intent of God."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." »Hermann Hesse
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"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom." »Don DeLillo
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"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." »Harry Morris Warner
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"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future." »Frank Herbert
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"How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either." »S Hayakawa
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"Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th." »Roy Blount Jr.
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"The concept of internal customers suits the wimpy organization headed by a wimp who tries to appease everyone and satisfy no-one." »Jonar Nader
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"Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it." »Admiral Hyman Rickover
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"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." »Ayn Rand
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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to the infinite." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race." »Clarence Jordan
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"I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what Over the system, over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride." »Paul Wiener
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"America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side." »Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984
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"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning." »George Frost Kennan
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"But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette." »James Grover Thurber
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"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops." »Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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