Quotes with conception

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Benito Mussolini The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Albert Camus The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • C. Everett Koop The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Bruce Lee True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Robert Collier Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Charles Baudelaire We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Grace Speare We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Pablo Picasso Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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