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  • That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Babe Paley All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Francis H. Bradley Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Klemens Von Metternich Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
    Klemens Von Metternich
    Austrian diplomat and statesman (1773 - 1859)
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Benito Mussolini Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
    Source: The Doctrine of Fascism
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Maria Montessori If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Mary McCarthy Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
    Source: The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Fuseli Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.
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  • Baruch Spinoza Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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