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Letter "C" » conception
«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.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
conception, consumes, escaping, forgetting, nightmare, sensation, strengthens, weighed, weighed down
«What's all this fuss about fathers being present at the birth of their children? The way events are shaping, they'll be lucky to be present at the conception.»
«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.»
Author: Grace Speare
(Author)
| Keywords:
conception, conscious mind, entertain, expresses, impressed, regularly, subconscious, subconscious mind
«We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that'»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Eternity
| Keywords:
bathhouse, conception, corner, grimy, spiders, the country, vast
«We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
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University
| Keywords:
conception, fifteenth, fifteenth century, suggest, universities, way out
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