Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, " I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right.

For one thing, it put paid to his idea of taking up medicine as a career ... His uniqueness lay in his universalism.

To try to do a Buffy without Joss Whedon ... to be incredibly non-eloquent: that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard.

It's horrible but exceedingly useful and hygenic ... I should have been horrified at the idea in Europe!

::" We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to find a careful and precise definition of consciousness.

The idea that liberalism comes in two forms assumes that the most fundamental question facing mankind is how much government intervenes into the economy ...

" About the artwork, Alston is quoted " The idea of a march was growing ... It was in the air ... and this painting just came.

One takes probability as ' a degree of rational belief ', or some similar idea ... the second defines probability in terms of frequencies of occurrence of events, or by relative proportions in ' populations ' or ' collectives '; ( p. 101 )

These investigations and results of Whipple's gave Minot and Murphy the idea that an experiment could be made to see whether favorable results might also be obtained in the case of pernicious anemia ... by making use of the foods of the kind that Whipple had found to yield favorable results in his experiments regarding anemia from loss of blood.

It ... afforded scope for picturesque treatment, scenery and costume, and I think that the idea of a chief magistrate, who is ... judge and actual executioner in one, and yet would not hurt a worm, may perhaps please the public.

Holm's discussion of the Ringu remakes presents this idea by stating, " It is, instead, to note that the Ring films make use of an untheorized notion of Japan ... that seek to directly represent the country.

In an example taken from his high school experience, Miller recalls that one of his classmates ... struck upon the brilliant idea of using an old, broken mousetrap as a spitball catapult, and it worked brilliantly .... It had worked perfectly as something other than a mousetrap .... my rowdy friend had pulled a couple of parts -- probably the hold-down bar and catch -- off the trap to make it easier to conceal and more effective as a catapult ... the base, the spring, and the hammer.

... Jane Fonda's whole idea of the ' poor Palestinians ,' and ' look how many Palestinians the Israelis killed in Gaza ,' is misconstrued.

" However within this line of thought " The tension between anti-vanguardism and vanguardism has frequently resolved itself in two diametrically opposed ways: the first involved a drift towards the party ; the second saw a move towards the idea of complete proletarian spontaneity ... The first course is exemplified most clearly in Gramsci and Lukacs ... The second course is illustrated in the tendency, developing from the Dutch and German far-lefts, which inclined towards the complete eradication of the party form.

" If I have learned a formula in gibberish which in any way jogs my memory so as to enable me in each single case to act as though I had a general idea, what possible utility is there in distinguishing between such a gibberish ... and an idea?

All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning ; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation ... We say that God Himself is a self-existing being ... Man does exist upon the same principles ... Bible does not say in the Hebrew that God created the spirit of man.

" The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren ’ t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “ Friday Night Girls " ... I wanted to write a three minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did.

In 2006, Berners-Lee and colleagues stated that: " This simple idea ... remains largely unrealized.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

A work so broad, even when it is directed by a leading idea and informed by a moral vision, must necessarily `` fail ''.

He contends this idea doesn't conflict with experiments on which the principle of conservation of matter and energy is based because some slight error must be assumed in such experiments.

Consequently, the idea of a self must be eliminated.

This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

His conception of First Cause was the idea that the Universe must have been caused by something that was itself uncaused, which he asserted was God.

Therefore, the idea was born that only the elite should know the truth in its complete form and the rulers, Plato said, must tell the people of the city " The Noble Lie " to keep them passive and content, without the risk of upheaval and unrest.

" And, " Mr. Locke, in his chapter of power, says that, finding from experience, that there are several new productions in nature, and concluding that there must somewhere be a power capable of producing them, we arrive at last by this reasoning at the idea of power.

Underlying all of this, however, is the idea that " Some things are up to us and some are not up to us " and we must react and interact with those things accordingly.

" This may be linked to what Les Parrott has called " the disease of false guilt .... At the root of false guilt is the idea that what you feel must be true.

In this regard, Gregory is the first to use the idea of procession to describe the relationship between the Spirit and the Godhead: " The Holy Spirit is truly Spirit, coming forth from the Father indeed but not after the manner of the Son, for it is not by generation but by procession, since I must coin a word for the sake of clearness.

In contemporary epistemology, internalism about justification is the idea that everything necessary to provide justification for a belief must be immediately available to an agent's consciousness.

The idea that specifically the interdependence between parts would have implications for the origins of living things was raised by writers starting with Pierre Gassendi in the mid 17th century and John Wilkins, who wrote ( citing Galen ), " Now to imagine, that all these things, according to their several kinds, could be brought into this regular frame and order, to which such an infinite number of Intentions are required, without the contrivance of some wise Agent, must needs be irrational in the highest degree.

has no idea of goodness he must be naturally wicked ; that he is vicious because he does not know virtue ".

In particular, Greenberg conceptualized the idea of " implicational universal ", which takes the form, " if a language has structure X, then it must also have structure Y.

Fundamental to Marx's idea of meaningful labour is the proposition that, in order for a subject to come to terms with its alienated object, it must first exert influence upon literal, material objects in the subject's world.

* Event semantics The idea that each productive morpheme must have a compositional semantic meaning ( a denotation ), and if the meaning is there, there must be a morpheme ( null or overt ).

" If, in turn, the speaker responds positively to the idea of giving to the poor, then some aspect of that idea must have inspired a positive response ; one could argue that that aspect is also the basis of its goodness.

" That a community has different components whose interests must be balanced in any good regime is an idea with classical precedents, but Machiavelli's particularly extreme presentation is seen as a critical step towards the later political ideas of both a division of powers or checks and balances, ideas which lay behind the US constitution ( and most modern constitutions ).

As S increases with respect to ≥, the points x < sub > S </ sub > in the net are constrained to lie in decreasing neighbourhoods of x, so intuitively speaking, we are led to the idea that x < sub > S </ sub > must tend towards x in some sense.

This idea can be envisioned graphically by the intersection of an upward-sloping marginal cost curve and a downward-sloping marginal revenue curve ( because the more one sells, the lower the price must be, so the less a producer earns per unit ).

In 1950, the idea was independently revived by Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort as a means to resolve a paradox: over the course of the Solar System's existence, the orbits of comets are unstable ; eventually, dynamics dictate that a comet must either collide with the Sun or a planet, or else be ejected from the Solar System by planetary perturbations.