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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 form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Important

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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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 gets, it's still a melody.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Voice

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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 these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Letting Go, Artist, Ideas

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• The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Poverty, Logic

  "Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

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• If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Ideas, Needs

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.339, Discovery House

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• In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, Choices, Brutality

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Nature, Heart

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• The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Pain, Health, Views

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.586, Delphi Classics

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• Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Past, Polemics

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

  Jonas Salk

  Gestation Period, Long, Birth

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• I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Husband, Book

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• Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

  Alan Bennett

  Children, Parent, Assuming

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

  Socrates

  Emotional, Sound, Ethics

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• And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.

  Pope Leo I

  Spiritual, Taken, Water

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• Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence.... If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of freedom from any constraint, was entirely necessitated. You could not have done otherwise and hence, according to this conception of freedom, were not free.

  Ermanno Bencivenga

  Freedom, Class, Choices

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• This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Profound, Clerks

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• The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Clever, Reading, Reality

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• Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

  Alfred Einstein

  Reality, Men, Unity

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• Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Reality, Vision

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• Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

  William Howard Taft

  Taken, Responsibility, Office

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

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• The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• It is my desire, by my presence and with my words, to pay tribute to your tireless work in defending and fostering the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death.

  Raymond Leo Burke

  Inspirational, Pro Life, Desire

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• All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Greatness, Blow

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• The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

  William James

  Men, Essence, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible..... There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

  John Ruskin

  Stars, Men, Sea

  John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

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