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«Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.»
«Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion»
Author: Robert Burns (Poet) | About: Gifts | Keywords: blunder, notion, wad
«Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing»
«Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.»
«Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.»
«I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs»
«Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.»
«The main difference between us, Buddhism and other philosophies, is that we do not accept the notion of a living god, but rather that we are responsible for our future happiness.»
«The Day of Judgment is an important notion: but that Day is always with us»
«There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages»

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