Conception Quotes
459 quotes by 382 authors
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I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American…
— David Rockefeller
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We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a…
— Jane Addams
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The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of…
— Pope Pius IX
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Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.
— Wayne Dyer
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it.…
— Carl Jung
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I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all…
— Calvin Coolidge
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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical…
— Karl Marx
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How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination,…
— Peter Selgin
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The…
— Albert Einstein
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It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good…
— Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in…
— Rem Koolhaas
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You…
— Roz Chast
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The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
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A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby
— Dennis Richardson
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
— Edward Gibbon
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Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience,…
— Max Horkheimer
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I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition…
— Paul Ryan
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What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what…
— Sol LeWitt
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The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it…
— Stan Getz
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Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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