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To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.
Leonhard Euler

Small, Actually, Ask

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.
Tony Campolo

Good, God, Parents

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?
Tony Campolo

Religion, Time, God

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
Carlos Santana

Show, Blues, Played

I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
Alexander McQueen

Work, Care, Used

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
Yo-Yo Ma

Learning, Put, Else

Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.
Peter Singer

Real, Down, Enough

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

Loneliness, Understand, Between

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
Tom Hanks

Understand, Optimism, Lack

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
Joss Whedon

Angry, Atheist, Devotion

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
Stephen Harper

Dead, Public, Policy

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.
Richard Ernst

Time, Feeling, Artist

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.
Emeril Lagasse

Good, Down, Give

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.
Lech Walesa

Made, Union, Essential

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
Lenny Kravitz

Love, God, Lost

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
Eliot Spitzer

Government, Give, Here

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
Dan Aykroyd

Human, Point, Realize

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.
Alton Brown

Real, Enough, Happens

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
Ralph Lauren

Age, Women, Mothers

'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
Jason Reitman

Reality, Writing, Remember

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
Dorothy Hamill

Person, Around, Days

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'
Kanye West

Art, Down, Fashion

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.
Gus Van Sant

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Robert Bork

Law, Fashion, Moral

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
Jay Inslee

Country, Energy, Earth

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
George Weinberg

Others, Grow, Unless

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

Revenge, Idea, Whether

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
Theresa May

Time, Around, Child

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
Miuccia Prada

Sometimes, Ordinary, Attempt

Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'
Julie Burchill

Best, Sunday, Friends

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