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• I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

  Sara Blakely

  Inspirational, Ideas, People

  “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

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• A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

  Graham Greene

  Daring, Whole, Feats

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.

  A. C. Bradley

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.19, A. C. Bradley

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• It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.

  Manly Hall

  Fashion, Moving, Self

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• The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Successful, Hands

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• Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Mathematically can we write down a universe that doesn't have time? Sure. Do we think that would be realised in the larger reality that is out there? None of us take that possibility seriously.

  Brian Greene

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• If life begins at conception, but you can be born again later, only to live on eternally after death, what's the big deal about anything?

  Dana Gould

  Born Again, Bigs, After Death

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• Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Photography, Artist, Practice

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• The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

  Andre Michel Lwoff

  Flower, Data, Bed

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• Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.

  James Madison

  Men, Imperfection, Add

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.176, Coventry House Publishing

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• Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

  Amos Oz

  War, Responsibility, Self

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• Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Art, Reality, Giving

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

  Albert Einstein

  Problem, Planes, Worthy

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• As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dog, Cat, Men

  "Enemies, A Love Story". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, p. 257, 1972.

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• My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humanity, Cases, Consistent

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.22, Rajpal & Sons

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• Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your own good, not the good of others and that's extremely harmful.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Psychological, Effects

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.

  Stephanie Mills

  Life Changing, Home, Technology

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

  William James

  Taken, Mean, Ideas

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.115, Nuvision Pubns

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• Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception.

  Joan Rivers

  Daughter, Twenties, Three

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

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• The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Fellow Man, May

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.270

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• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Thinking, Atoms

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• I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Father, Weak, Results

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.161, Dubois Publishing

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• The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Order, Mind

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.258, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humble, Fighting, Proud

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• Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Darkness, Life Is, Alchemy

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