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Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

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

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

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

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.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

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

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

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

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.