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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.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.
So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.
I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or that they are judging my book by its cover or by preconceived notions.
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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.
Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.
It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.
I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.
All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.
I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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.
The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.
I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
Writing involves an acceptance of being on the margin, the threshold, a galvanization out of received notions into a more activated, kinetic, often perilous, seeing.
photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.
There are no fixed notions on what I should pick up or follow, it has to first appeal to me.
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.
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.
The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda that cannot help but promote "Islamophobia."
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.
