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«Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.»
«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.»
«It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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amazing, notions, ordinary, ordinary people, preconceived, preconceived notion, set out
«IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, dependent, dependent on, disorder, expediency, immoral, inexpedient, instances, in the long run, moral character, moral philosophy, notions, nowise, originated, regard to, right and wrong, with regard to
«People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
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cigarette, deliver, entertainment, it An, method, nicotine, notions, realms, romantic, romantics, television, The Romantic
«It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world»
«Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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familiarize, familiarizes, familiarizing, for a while, notions
«Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.»
«Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. . . . The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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attachment, enjoyments, General The, notions, respect to, with respect to