Quotes with conceived

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  • Bruce Lee Taoist philosophy... is essentially monistic.... Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Rachel Carson The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Barry Commoner The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Eric Hoffer Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John Donne We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • William Butler Yeats We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Nicholas Boileau What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Simone Weil To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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