Inception Quotes

• Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

  Mitt Romney

  Positive, Thinking, Should Have

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• Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

  Mike DeWine

  Compassion, Umpires, Justice

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• Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

  Frank Serpico

  Speaks Out, President, Speech

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• Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Finding The One, Hollywood, Stuff

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  Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Real, Vision

  Twitter post from May 15, 2010

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• A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Cities, Ideas, Mind

  "Finding The Summer Movies That Are (Well) Off The Beaten Path". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. May 31, 2010.

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• Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

  Ken Watanabe

  Regret, Men, Waiting

  "Fictional character: Saito". "Inception", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Littles, Darling

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• We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

  Lane Kirkland

  Leadership, Bitterness, Staff

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• The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Courage, Determination, Inspiration

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• If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Hurt, Return, Sometimes

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.320, University of Virginia Press

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• Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Country, Religious, Independent

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• There was never any more inception than there is now,
  Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfection, Heaven, Age

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

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• This is my inception, I'm writing my dreams.

  Common

  Dream, Writing

  Song: Blue Sky, Album: The Dreamer, The Believer, 2011

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• Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Israel, Threat, Has Beens

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• The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

  Paul Celan

  Lonely, Loneliness, Poetry

  Paul Celan (2005). “Paul Celan: Selections”, p.164, Univ of California Press

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• I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

  Jasper Fforde

  Errors, Principles, Mankind

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• Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Sleep, Men, Self

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Impact

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• As far as the dreams go, really I would only point to there are times in my life where I experienced lucid dreaming, which is a big feature of Inception - the idea of realizing you're in a dream and therefore trying to change or manipulate it in some way. That's a very striking experience for people who have it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Ideas, People

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarib, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• ... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Notebook, Beautiful, Lying

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• The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Males, Has Beens, Industry

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  Felix Adler

  Religious, Dogma, Creeds

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• We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if this entire adventure, this entire Iraqi invasion from the beginning of its inception, were not judged to be an utter failure and a terrible, terrible thing for the world.

  Robert Reich

  Iraq, Would Be, World

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 22, 2007.

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• Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Women, Working Parents

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