#notion

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#bad #bad idea #beginning #first #formulation

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#notions #ordinary #ordinary people #out #people

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#confuse #element #endowments #equal #equality

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#humane #just #large #large numbers #notion

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #belief #capability #damnation #death

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#concept #especially #exists #idea #interesting

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#bad #bad guy #because #calling #films

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#direction #motion #notion #ordinary #spin

I'm not one of these guys who says, Now I'm on a really hot show, better quit soon before I get labeled. That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard. ↗

— Jeff Probst

#better #ever #get #guys #heard

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#big #big believer #certain #certain extent #certainly