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• So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

  Ron Paul

  Abortion, Fetus, Arbitrary

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• Human life commences at the time of conception.

  Landrum Shettles

  Abortion, Human Life, Humans

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• The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Passion, Ambition, Self

  Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.256, Transaction Publishers

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• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

  Karl Pearson

  Men, Emotional, Order

  Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts, since they are practically infinite in number. We must make a selection. Is it not better to be guided by utility, by our practical, and more especially our moral, necessities?

  Henri Poincare

  Writing, Science, Numbers

  "The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare".

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• In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they must be apprehended and analysed according to some Conceptions which, applied for this purpose, give distinct and definite results, such as can be steadily taken hold of and reasoned from.

  William Whewell

  Taken, Knowledge, Science

  William Whewell (1858). “Novum Organon Renovatum”, p.63

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• The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily beneath reality, that the notion of a God revealed in human formborn, sufferin.

  Oliver Lodge

  Reality, Philosopher, Notion

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• The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Technology, Men

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Intuition, Instinct, Hunches

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• My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Children, Home, Childhood

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.5, 谷月社

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• Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Lord, Discipleship

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.258, Discovery House

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• Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions.

  Nevill Francis Mott

  God, Believe, Science

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• The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

  Alain de Botton

  Looks, May, Proust

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.153, Pan Macmillan

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• When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

  Radhanath Swami

  Yoga, Discipline, Water

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• The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

  Roger Scruton

  Gratitude, Government, Apathy

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• Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Doe, Moments

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.405, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Wish, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.34, Routledge

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• Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition, because quantum mechanics shatters our own personal, individual conception of reality

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Mind, Tuition

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• Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any
  conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into
  weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the
  ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Vitality, Weak

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.798, GENERAL PRESS

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• Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

  Pope Francis

  Sanctuary, Natural, Human Life

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

  Edward Snowden

  Children, Growing Up, Today

  "The Alternative Christmas Message", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Memories, Past, Trying

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• Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are held and projected onto one's self or others they become a project. When the project is enacted it becomes the work, and when the work is completed it appears to be self-existent. Creation is the process of form manifesting from emptiness, where that which arises from the mind comes into existence. Yet the distance between conception and realisation may be enormous, as vast as the distance between the stars.

  Robert Beer

  Stars, Spring, Work

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• At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Atheist, Growing Up, Men

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• The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth. The childbearing is a time of adjustments and fierce emotions. The childbearing year touches every season.

  Susun Weed

  Pregnancy, Years, Two

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