#notions

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.


Marcus Aurelius


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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.


Felix Frankfurter


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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 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


#busy #choices #clause #constantly #courts

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.


Alfred North Whitehead


#dim #driven #existing #forward #general

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

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.


Lawrence Summers


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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


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