Conception Quotes
459 quotes by 382 authors
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
— C. Everett Koop
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Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut…
— William Hartung
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
— Federica Montseny
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Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s mind, how he…
— Richard Ramirez
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Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
— William Kingdon Clifford
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Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him…
— Desmond Tutu
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Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.…
— Carl Jung
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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
— Timothy Keller
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Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.
— George Will
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The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within,…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are…
— Wallace Stevens
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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in…
— Andrea Dworkin
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We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the…
— Florence King
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The Jewish conception of the Jews as the Chosen People who must eventually rule the world forms indeed the basis of Rabbinical Judaism... The Jewish…
— Nesta Helen Webster
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Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception
— Frederick Lenz
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The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
— George C. Williams
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