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God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Quote by John Lennon about god, religion, measure, pain

It's good that kids know the Scripture. It's best that they know the Scripture and get the concept. All I can say is, it's working.

Quote by Willie Aames about good, good luck

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about things

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, nothing

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, nothing

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Quote by Albert Camus about truth, essential, absurd

This is difficult because so many of us are convinced that women are incapable of aggression on the same scale as men - that women are physically too weak, or are inherently, biologically different in aggressive capacity, or are spiritually...

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, man

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Quote by Richard Ernst about artists, time

The goal set by Hans Primas was the usage of random noise for the excitation of nuclear magnetic resonance, following the famous concepts of Norbert Wiener for the stochastic testing of non-linear systems.

Quote by Richard Ernst about purpose

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Quote by Tom Hanks about solitude, being

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about word, use, moral

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Quote by Franz Kafka about religion, name, law, time

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

Quote by Joe Orton about children, present

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about heredity, heroism, god, experience

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, originality, time

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

Quote by Alan Parsons about power, being

The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.

Quote by Alan Parsons about wealth, moon, dark

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about society, school