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• Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock."

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Pieces, Clock

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• God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Punishment, Suffering, Fierce

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Reflection, Law, Moral

  "De la supériorité des mœurs sur les lois". Oeuvres complètes, Volume VIII, p. 286., 1831.

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• The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Differences, Would Be, Excess

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• I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Letting Go, Prayer, Humility

  Mary Baker Eddy (1957). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Long is the road from conception to completion.

  Moliere

  Long, Completion

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• I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that 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.

  Pope John Paul II

  World, Sacred, Life Is

  Pope John Paul II (1979). “U.S.A.--the Message of Justice, Peace, and Love: Pastoral Visit of Pope John Paul II, October 1-7, 1979”

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• We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming together in one Person, that by one and the same conception and birth might spring our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom was present both true Godhead for the performance of mighty works and true Manhood for the endurance of sufferings.

  Pope Leo I

  Christian, Jesus, Spring

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• I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Selfish, Thinking

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• Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

  Oswald Chambers

  Bartering, Word Of God, Suitable

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.32, Discovery House

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• Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God and was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications and non-sequiturs.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Biblical, Editing

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.28, Penguin

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• No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.

  Margaret Sanger

  Taken, Eugenics, Abortion

  "Family Limitation". Book by Margaret Sanger, Revised, Eighth Edition. Chapter: "A Nurse's Advice to Women", www.nyu.edu. 1918.

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• The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Expression, Ratios

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• It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity with these mighty concepts most certainly does not breed contempt, does not dull our awe at the mightiness of the universe in which we play so small a part. It is very doubtful if any of those who are seriously studying the heavens ever lose their feeling of reverence for this supremely wonderful universe and for Whoever or Whatever must be behind it all.

  Heber Doust Curtis

  Play, Space, Heaven

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• Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

  Mary Somerville

  Math, Unity, Deities

  Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

  Arthur Miller

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?

  Antonio Gramsci

  Work Out, Personality, Brain

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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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• Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Writing, Past, History

  Frederick Jackson Turner, Martin Ridge (1993). “History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays”

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• Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Compassion, Profound

  "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

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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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• I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork ... insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a single, quite simple magnetic force. This physical conception is to be presented through calculation and geometry.

  Johannes Kepler

  Mean, Science, Simple

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• When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.

  Max Horkheimer

  Religious, Philosophical, Humility

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1947.

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• Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experience. It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception. Philosophy seeks a totality and harmony of reasoned insight into the nature and meaning of all the principal aspects of reality.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Philosophy, Reflection, Reality

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