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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

~Eckhart Tolle

Topics: Become Beings Concepts Ego Else Even Except Extent Feel Forms Get Human Human Beings Humanity Identified Life Longer Mind Minds Nothing Other Over People Planet Sense Share Taken Well

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An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Bound Concepts Economy Gains Generate New Novel Open Unequal Ventures

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Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Computer Concepts Design Efficiency Excellent Human Imagination Machine Nurture Principles Systems Thought Useful

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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.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Abuse Anything Applied Become Concepts Critics Decadence Differ Difficult Little Moral More Seems Since Term Than Understand Use Which Word

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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

~Flora Lewis

Topics: Alien Arisen Aspiration Concepts Democracy Dignity Everywhere Freedom Infuse May Moral Philosophy Religion Striving Underlying Universal Way West

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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

~Foster Friess

Topics: Any Concepts Deal Hard Help Hope How Intolerant John Knowing Life People Perspective Strip Those Truths Worked Young Young People

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I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

~Francis Collins

Topics: About Anyway Brain Complexities Concepts Does Evil Good Good And Evil How Human Human Brain Interested Limits May Mean Neuroscience Science See Take Tell Terms Think Those Understanding Us Where Works

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Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

~Franz Von Papen

Topics: Another Concepts Domination Incompatible Leadership Party State

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When the Bitcoin white paper emerged in 2008, it was completely revolutionary. The amount of concepts that had to come together in just the right way - computer science, cryptography, and economic incentives - was astonishing.

~Fred Ehrsam

Topics: Amount Astonishing Bitcoin Come Computer Computer Science Concepts Cryptography Economic Emerged Had Incentives Just Paper Revolutionary Right Right Way Science Together Way White

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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

~Garth Nix

Topics: Address Adult Angle Appropriate Bear Being Child Children Concepts Content Context Distressing Graphic Include Limited Need Oblique Ready Responsibility Themes Viewpoint Without Writing You

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