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The Commission might now be entertaining the notion that Microsoft might have to bribe consumers to buy an inferior product.

This hybrid notion of using the 2002 numbers -- we're going to use appeals and were going to fuss around in between the next reassessment, which we don't know when its going to be -- I just think is not going to withstand judicial scrutiny.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

These are films that capitalize on the notion of being able to push the envelope and go into territory that you could not go into in a PG-13.

Accustom children to a true notion of things.

It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.

It just jumps out at you that this notion hasn't worked out in the real world. And if it did work out, maybe we should eliminate all the taxes and balance the budget.

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.

It's one of my most pure pieces, and not just the way it looks. Balanchine felt able to not use all his ideas, not to cram in information. I try to achieve that. It's another step closer to some kind of ideal. But it's not so simple as a classical notion of purity.

There's always this preconceived notion that paying for sports with tax dollars is frivolous. It's the business that Florida's in, where I always like to say we're kind of the glamour business.

It reaffirms this notion that there is mismanagement and corruption rampant - even though that's not in fact the case.

It's very devious and insidious to see how -- once one permits a departure from the notion of the inherent good of life and the responsibilities that are owed to life -- that then it becomes very difficult to answer the question, 'Why not kill a person?' ... People don't like to have the comparison made because it rightly makes all of us very uneasy, but there are some very striking analogies to what is happening now among us here in the United States and the Third Reich, Nazi Germany.

it never occurred to me that anyone would buy into the notion that Mr. Bush and his supporters would actually do something about poverty and racism. Someone who believed that could probably be persuaded to make a bid on eBay to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

It's a hypothesis that's not testable, and one of the important recognition factors for science and scientific ideas is the notion of testability, that you can go out and do an experiment and learn from it and change your idea. That's just not possible with a notion that's as much a belief in spirituality as intelligent design is.

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.

Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'

Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.

As a country becomes more developed, allergy rises and rises. And the notion there is that in the more-developed countries, you may be getting less exposure to infections and germs and other things that may stimulate your immune system in a direction other than allergy, ... The more your immune system is kept busy by exposure to germs and infections early in life, the less time it can devote to things like allergy.

There will be more of a physical notion that there is one, integrated district. And I think the pedestrian improvements will create a much better pedestrian feel.

They don't get the notion that during a disaster one of the fundamental needs is taking care of the large number of patients.

There was this assumption that as soon as people got a notion for what broadband was, they would want it -- that it would be as automatic in some ways as adoption of the dial-up Internet was in the U.S., where growth was very quick and almost happened by itself as opposed to really needing to be sold.

There's a bit of a strange twist to my ending I won't say what. I was anxious not to abandon the romance, the fairy tale, the magic in this ballet but at the same time I wanted to reach that from an everyday world, for him to create that romantic notion of an ideal woman for himself not to go skipping through some fairy-tale woods and stumble across an enchanted swan-woman.

There's absolutely no reason why the state legislature can't regulate attorneys fees. For one, judges are lawyers too. And surely the notion cannot be that the branch that's most responsive to the public shouldn't take the lead in a matter like this.

There's certainly blasphemy in the play. Genet plays with the notion of blasphemy a lot; that's one of the reasons France banned it.

There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again.

There's been this long-held notion that there's an infinite amount of inventory online. While that may or may not be true, we've found that there is definitely a finite amount of relevant, quality inventory. Smart marketers understand the value of behavioral targeting, but the challenge has been to make it work at scale.

It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.

It's just adding to the notion that the Fed is on the cusp of an imminent and extended pause. It's proving what everybody was thinking -- the I-told-you-so crowd -- that oil is going to weaken things.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

What's happened is that teams have latched onto the notion that Spring Training can be a big revenue producer.

We are very concerned that Will Perkins' aim is to re-enact his denial of civil rights to same-sex couples. We would hotly dispute the notion that domestic partnerships are the same as marriage.

We could decide to settle others. We are not entertaining the notion of a global settlement.

We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.

It is recognized towers are needed in virtually every community. But there is also a notion to make them as acceptable or attractive as possible.

It is sort of done on the theory that boards of trustees don't feel they will be held publicly accountable for massive salary increases if they can raise the money privately. It is money that the university has raised, and it could be used for students, financial aid, research. The notion that this is not really public money... isn't right.

It was something that really wanted to happen. (Latinos are) really upset about the notion of being felons. It's deeply insulting, and it really got a lot of people into action.

It says, even to those not interested in sports, we are on another platform, ... We are on a recognized national platform in terms of the notion that to be selected by the league -- a very sophisticated and smart business operation -- as a market that can support a franchise, it says a lot about who we are.

It says, even to those not interested in sports, we are on another platform. We are on a recognized national platform in terms of the notion that to be selected by the league -- a very sophisticated and smart business operation -- as a market that can support a franchise, it says a lot about who we are.

It was really to cut down the notion or the idea of some people that golf is only for the rich and not a minority sport and all of that kind of thing.

It was a year of awakening for the new investor on Wall Street and it was a very quick and sudden reversal of fortunes for many. We ran the emotional gamut from total irrational thinking and perception to reality and capitulation. Last year's market did reinforce the notion that abuses and excesses are eventually corrected and eventually reach a level of overreaction -- and that's how the year ended.

It's a drop in the bucket. It's only meaningful to the extent that it doesn't support the notion that the family thinks the sale of the company is imminent.

We knew Calvin had the ability. Where he struggled was his maturity. He had to embrace the notion that he had to mature more. I told him once he did, the sky's the limit.

We want to dispel the notion that 'no load' means 'no advice' and help our clients reach their financial goals.

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

There is the pessimistic notion that this is not going to go away and that's going to have a more lasting impact on driving habits and behavior, I suspect, than we've seen so far.

There is this simplistic notion around that because the yield curve is inverted, therefore, economic growth is going to slow down, but ... no consideration is given as to why the economy would slow down.

This litigation issue has raised the notion in everybody's mind that if anything happens to affect their BlackBerry service, they're wiped out.

This is the notion of personalization at the intermediary level.

This is too big for us to make a 10-minute decision. We're going to think about it overnight. ... This really threw us for a bad loop. I didn't have the foggiest notion this could happen.

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

They're not putting this on walls in Gladwyne or Ardmore. These are poor neighborhoods. The whole notion that 'if it's urban, it's OK' is very arrogant and very disrespectful.

I am worried that if we give them too much coverage it can back up the notion that they are a potent protest vote.

How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.

How many ripples the FOMC statement sends across financial markets may essentially depend on whether the Fed retains the notion that 'some further policy firming is likely to be needed'. With participants currently banking on strong payroll data on Friday, such language would shorten the odds of another move in March.

If I had any notion in my mind or my being that he would have done something like this, I would have had him in the deepest, darkest cell that I could find,

I don't think anybody's bought into the notion of how good we are, because we're not perfect and we still have a long season to go. I think we all realize what we have at stake, and that it would be a lot better to be 4-1 than to be 3-2, because at 3-2 it's almost as if you have to start over.

I do not believe for a moment that you are evil or that you don't feel a deep sense of personal regret and even sorrow over the poor judgment you exercised on Nov. 3, 2003, ... I have considered and rejected the notion that sending you to jail will serve the legitimate sentencing goals of rehabilitation or deterrence. It is also not necessary to send you to jail for public safety reasons or for retribution sake alone. I will not do that.

I do confirm this information and my reaction to this is negative, the authorities should not do this and the court hearings should've been held openly. This reinforces the notion that there is something that the authorities want to conceal from the public.

Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.

For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.

her archaic and stereotypical notion that men shouldn't have access to her perspective.

Being able to get tax-free withdrawals is very powerful, so the general notion is you should look to the Roth IRA right away.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.

I am against the notion of style in itself

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

General notions are generally wrong.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

The market has clearly accepted the notion that the Fed will back away.

The marketplace in which cable, satellite, broadcasters and others vigorously compete for customers should decide video offerings - not mandates and price controls imposed by Washington, D.C.. The notion that the government knows better how to improve on a competitive marketplace is not supported by the evidence.

The market share in its stock is a glimpse of the future. This notion of an 80 percent market share floor-based system is probably not sustainable.

All of these indications have reinforced our notion that we made the right choice by trying something different, trying to make history fun and being innovative in how we were trying to present history.

The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

The main difference between us, Buddhism and other philosophies, is that we do not accept the notion of a living god, but rather that we are responsible for our future happiness.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion ...

The disparity in land values is exactly the problem and the whole notion of the Williamson Act is to keep taxes down to keep farming affordable.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.