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• Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

  Pat Metheny

  Soul, Spirit, Hardware

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• America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.

  Ann Bridge

  Thinking, America, People

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• For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Years, Tree, Littles

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Running, Men, Order

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• When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Greatness, Men, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1125, First Avenue Editions

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• The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Knowledge, Loss

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.44, 谷月社

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• The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

  Max Weber

  Mind, Genius, Elements

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn child in its mother's womb is the quintessence of innocence. Let us remember the words of Vatican Council II: 'Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.'

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Abortion

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• My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

  Harry Houdini

  Self, Training, Tasks

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• Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Teaching, Character

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.98, Kshetra Books

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• The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Views

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Writing, Burning, Gaps

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• Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Selfish, Sensual, Honor

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• In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth, Order, Clothes

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• The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.

  William H. Coles

  Children, Food, Cooking

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• Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Body, Resurrection

  "By This Time He Stinketh" by Robert M. Price, infidels.org. 1997.

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• The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

  Karen Horney

  Culture, Normal, Courses

  Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.15, Routledge

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• As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

  Jane Addams

  Humble, Community, Democracy

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.87, Youcanprint

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• The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Silence, Limits, Belief

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• The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

  Bruce Barton

  Hard Work, Home, People

  "Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America". Book by T. J. Jackson Lears, 1994.

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• The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

  Jules Verne

  Animal, Sea, Elephants

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.7, Jules Verne

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• The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.

  Norman Mailer

  Stars, War, Men

  Norman Mailer (1970). “Of A Fire On The Moon”

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• It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

  Herbert Spencer

  Virtue

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.35, VM eBooks

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• As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change - that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.

  Richard Rorty

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Swings

  "Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3". Book by Richard Rorty (Introduction), March 13, 1998.

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• [Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Science, Intellectual, Vistas

  Rosa Luxemburg, Paul Le Blanc (1999). “Rosa Luxemburg: reflections and writings”

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