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Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

Emma Goldman

Men, Thinking, World

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.80, 谷月社

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In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future.

Herbert Read

Believe, Past, Order

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To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.

U Thant

Religious, Feelings, Roles

Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

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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

Mean, Target Audience, Ordinary

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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 the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.

William Hartung

Eye, Cutting, Names

"Military Strategy? Who Needs It?" by William Hartung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2015.

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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

Federica Montseny

Needs, Hell, Purgatory

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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

Purpose, Social, Courses

William Kingdon Clifford (1879). “Lectures and Essays by William Kingdon Clifford”

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It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as God's khulifa, and hence only in proper commitment to the vision of Islam, may man act responsibly in the totality of space-time.

Ismail al-Faruqi

Commitment, Space, Humanity

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It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

Thomas Sowell

Believe, People, Self Improvement

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Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.

Edwin Percy Whipple

Beautiful, Humble, Humor

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Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.

William D. Hoard

Views, Ideas, Progress

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We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

Swami Vivekananda

Men, Higher, Human Beings

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3128, Manonmani Publishers

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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

John Ruskin

Book, Knowledge And Power, Sight

William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

George Orwell

Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

Joshua Reynolds

Art, Writing, Color

Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Illustr. by explanatory notes & plates by John Burnet”, p.28

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The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

Friedrich Schiller

Art, Design, Execution

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It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

Winston Churchill

Liberty, Fundamentals, Socialism

Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.478, Da Capo Press

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In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

Archibald Alexander

Believe, Doctrine, Faith In God

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Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Carl Jung

Light, Darkness, Mind

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Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

Oswald Chambers

Christian, Saint, Should

Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.54, Discovery House

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I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.

Stockwell Day

Believe, Rights, Issues

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And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

Savitri Devi

Beautiful, People, India

Savitri Devi, G. D. Savarkar (1939). “A Warning to the Hindus”

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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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Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-absorption without self-awareness.

Leslie Jamison

Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

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