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Letter "C" » conception
«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»
Author: Alan Herbert
(Journalist, Writer)
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Living
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admired, conception, living together, sheep, suggests, Twenty Five
«One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.»
Author: James D. Watson
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conception, contrast, goodly, narrow-minded, newspapers, realizing, scientist, supported, The Popular
«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.»
Author: Robert Collier
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beyond, conception, gives, imagination, impulse, into, My picture, out of reach, own, picture, pictured, Picture It, picturing, reaches, reach into, that is, The Beyond, The Thing, vision
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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back end, bringing, central, commonplace, conception, constitution, end point, morals, reflections, spite, studies, The central, The Turning Point, to advantage, turning point, work in
«The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.»
«To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ancient, ancient people, ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, as a matter of fact, authorities, century, conception, consulting, existed, hardly, observation, obvious, seventeenth, seventeenth century
«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.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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conception, freedom of thought, in the midst, midst, prisoner, The Prisoner, The State
«The truth was that Jay Gatsby?sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.»
«To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
all-time, appeal, book of knowledge, conception, councils, council of, Judges, LED, of all time, purer, rightly, sentence, solitary, unstable, wider
«Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.»
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