Conceivable Quotes
122 Conceivable quotes by 110 unique authors
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It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.
— Franz von Papen
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Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.
— Keith Laumer
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A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but…
— Karl Popper
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Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every…
— Andy Stanley
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The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning,…
— Ann Voskamp
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Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in…
— Catherine Booth
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Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from…
— Thomas Pynchon
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In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of…
— Karlheinz Stockhausen
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We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists…
— Bob Inglis
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Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from…
— Ron Paul
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We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable,…
— Steven Pinker
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If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of…
— St. Jerome
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A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six…
— Adolf Hitler
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[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid…
— Mona Charen
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All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
— Thomas Sowell
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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and…
— Alan Watts
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from…
— William Graham Sumner
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You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War…
— H.G. Wells
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