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• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Knowledge And Power, Sight

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.

  James Ellroy

  Regret, Fall, America

  James Ellroy (2011). “American Tabloid: Underworld USA (1)”, p.3, Vintage

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• The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

  Satyajit Ray

  Surfing, Use, These Days

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Animal, Numbers, Cells

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• The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

  Ernst Mach

  Struggle, Men, Average

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• It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

  Joe Orton

  Children, Dad, Reasonable

  'Entertaining Mr Sloane' (1964) act 3

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• Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  Ken Danby

  Strong, Growing Up, Numbers

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• Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

  Paul Twitchell

  Space, Expression, Substance

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• 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Cowboy, America, Brokeback Mountain

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• An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Struggle, Atmosphere, Belief

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

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• How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Christian, Abortion

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis”

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• People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

  Alveda King

  Jobs, Successful, Men

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• My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.

  Leon Uris

  People, Accomplishment, Scene

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• Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely 'think' his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener.

  Raymond Scott

  Thinking, Years, Perfect

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

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• My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results in a treatise [Die Lehre von der Energie] exhibiting great independence of thought. But we were separated by his aversion to a realistic conception of energy. Consequently, each of us considered the other only a half ally, toward whom an attitude of caution was necessary.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Attitude, Independence, Allies

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• If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

  Robert Grudin

  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Pain, Struggle

  George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.

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• Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Writing, Color

  Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Illustr. by explanatory notes & plates by John Burnet”, p.28

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• The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Design, Execution

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• It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, People, Self Improvement

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• Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.

  Lauren Willig

  Cousin, Reality, Historical Novels

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• Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Impact, Hip Hop, Political

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• It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

  Winston Churchill

  Liberty, Fundamentals, Socialism

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.478, Da Capo Press

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• The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

  Wilkie Collins

  Spiritual, Lying, Light

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1463, Delphi Classics

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• Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Saint, Should

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.54, Discovery House

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