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• The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

  John Rawls

  Rights, Justice, Principles

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Might, Half

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

  John Rawls

  May, Moral, Form

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.44, Harvard University Press

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• Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.

  William Lipscomb

  Teaching, School, Ignorance

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• I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would have it, keeping peace, in which case they're not there to actively intervene and stop violence? When we send them into these places, do we expect they will respond forcefully?

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Thinking, Violence, Expecting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Mankind, Being True, Interest

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• Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

  Billy Graham

  Construction, Humans, Human Beings

  Billy Graham (2013). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Believe, Philosophical, Abortion

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• What is fear?  Why are you so afraid?  Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why fear?  How can it harm you?  Just false conceptions, just conditionings given by the society - that you have to hide, that you have to protect yourself, that you have to be constantly in a fighting mood, that everybody is and enemy, that everybody is against you.  Nobody is against you!  Even if you feel somebody is against you, he is not against you because everybody is concerned with himself, not with you

  Rajneesh

  Book, Fighting, Enemy

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• The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Errors, World

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• Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

  Bhagat Singh

  Fighting, Men, Idols

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.

  Julius Evola

  Personality, Scratches, Way

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• I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...I never tried to imitate anybody, but when you love somebody's music, you're influenced...I really don't know how I developed my sound, but it comes from a combination of my musical conception and no doubt the basic shape of the oral cavity.

  Stan Getz

  Doubt, Musical, Sound

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• If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

  George Eliot

  Character, Needs, Theory

  George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.98, 谷月社

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• Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Zest, Perfect, Age

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.73, University of Chicago Press

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• The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

  Joseph Addison

  Ideas, Soul, Sublime

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• But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Japan, Interesting, Noh

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

  George Carlin

  Years, People, Process

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.476, Hachette UK

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• And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth.

  George Carlin

  Jesus, Sex, Mean

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Illumination, Sobriety, Vision

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had the baby. He was there for the birth. It would've been nice if he was there for the conception.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Nice, Birth

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• It depends on your specific conception of God, because belief can equally well leave you with this constant sense that you're coming up short and you're being judged and you're not doing quite the perfect thing. You know, I was brought up very religiously, and I never totally lost that sense, you know, that I'm screwing up.

  Joel Achenbach

  Perfect, Belief, Lost

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• Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfil other physical functions of which perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also to constitute the material organism of beings exercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at present is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Exercise, Mind, Body

  James Clerk Maxwell (1952). “Scientific Papers”

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• The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Single Mom, Practice, Pieces

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• By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.

  Kobe Bryant

  Men, Numbers, Fire

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