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«The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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America and Americans,
Christianity,
Liberty,
Religion
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Americans, combine, combines, conceive, conceive of, intimately, notions, The Americans
«Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.»
«There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.»
«The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -- quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
beforehand, conceive, proved, thanked, wildest
«One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
conceive, implausible
«The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
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conceive, Good Life, Happy Life, The Good Life
«I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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clearing, clearings, conceive, conceives, conceiving, existence, striving, strivings
«Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.»
«I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.»
«The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.»
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