#notions

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.


Jose Ortega y Gasset


#better #beware #clearly #genius #inspiration

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.


Vernor Vinge


#center #contradicts #deeply #held #humankind

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.


Merry Browne


#locks #notions #preconceived #wisdom

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.


Dolly Parton


#business #chance #could #dad #everything

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.


Algernon Sidney


#divines #liberty #nature #notions #school

Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission.


Melda Beaty


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If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.


Brigitte Bardot


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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#conceive #impossible #intimately #liberty #make

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.


Woody Guthrie


#change #cow #day #dead #find

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.


Michel de Montaigne


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