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• Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

  Amos Oz

  War, Responsibility, Self

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• Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.

  James Madison

  Men, Imperfection, Add

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.176, Coventry House Publishing

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• Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can we write down a universe that doesn't have time? Sure. Do we think that would be realised in the larger reality that is out there? None of us take that possibility seriously.

  Brian Greene

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Photography, Artist, Practice

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• The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Successful, Hands

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• Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

  Joan Rivers

  Daughter, Twenties, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If life begins at conception, but you can be born again later, only to live on eternally after death, what's the big deal about anything?

  Dana Gould

  Born Again, Bigs, After Death

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Enemies, A Love Story". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, p. 257, 1972.

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• The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

  Andre Michel Lwoff

  Flower, Data, Bed

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• The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.

  Niels Bohr

  Simple, Light, Years

  Niels Bohr (1934). “Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays”, p.2, CUP Archive

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• The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million unborn children in the last 40 years. I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.

  Rand Paul

  Children, War, Believe

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• If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Unity, Dying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

  Dev Anand

  Baby, Ideas, Finals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.

  Marco Rubio

  Keys, Rights, Perfect

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a continuity from a previous mind. This we hold to prove the existence of a past life.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Past, Mind

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• The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

  Francis George

  Light, Abortion, Moral

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• For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours.

  John Wesley

  Men, Light, Sight

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.406

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• He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.

  Daniel Webster

  Feet, Rocks, Perfect

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 10 Mar. 1831

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• That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Perfect, Mind, Void

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.706

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• The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in the womb... And the conception of Christ in the womb of the blessed virgin by the power of the Holy Ghost, seems to be a designed resemblance of the conception of Christ in the soul of a believer by the power of the same Holy Ghost.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Blessed, Grace, Soul

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1808). “The Works of President Edwards;: A treatise conserning religious affections. Christian cautions. A warning to professors. The final judgment. Sinners in Zion tenderly warned. The end of the wicked contemplated by the righteous”, p.69

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• You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

  Seth

  Self, Ideas, Perception

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• Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Execution, Shows

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Knowing God, Draws

  Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2007). “Twenty-Three Tales”, p.254, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Reality, Giving

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.

  Robert McNamara

  Past, Goal, Balance

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