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"The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious." »Unknown
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"The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." »Chuq Von Rospach
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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
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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
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"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs us of the chance to be extraordinary and leads us to the mediocre." »Uta Hagan
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"I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist" »Peter Handke
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"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past." »Robertson Davies
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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any." »Russell Baker
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"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon." »Irving Layton
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"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." »Thomas Huxley
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"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog fewer when pursued by a mad woman only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion." »Robertson Davies
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"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion." »Robertson Davies
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"We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be." »William James
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"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big 'thing.' This is truth, to me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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"A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning." »Paul Ingram
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