Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space… — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
“Material and technical changes are mostly quite visible. But less visible are the changes in the mind of the people, their way… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
...through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government - one that will embrace all of the collective… — Harold Rugg Copy Share Image
Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
How do I define God? I don't… People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“You are not an accident. Even at the moment of your conception, out of many possibilities, only certain cells combined, survived, grew… — Judith Lothian Copy Share Image
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
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