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Conceive Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
More Conceive Quotes
- I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. — Charles Baudelaire
- If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we… — Annie Besant
- Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. — W. E. B. Du Bois
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- We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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- Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun
- Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what… — Eugene H. Peterson
- The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,… — Lewis Mumford
- I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving… — George Bernard Shaw
- I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be… — Martin Rees